LAHORE Home Department Punjab has directed Commissioners and District Coordination Officers of various divisions and districts of the province to verify particular of licence holders of explosives as well as carry out physical inspection of their premises in the respective areas. In a letter to Commissioners of Rawalpindi, Sargodha and Dera Gazi Khan divisions and District Coordination Officers of Rawalpindi, Chakwal, Jhelum, Attock, Sargodha, Khushab, Mianwali, Dera Ghazi Khan, Kasur, Jhang, Chiniot and Gujranwala districts, they have been directed to immediately undertake licence holders particulars verification exercise wherein they are required to personally visit and carryout physical inspection of the premises of explosive licence holders in their respective district and ascertain the record of their documentation and immediately inform Home Department in case of any discrepancy. They have also been directed to check the supply chain and licence holders with diligences to avoid any security breech, misuse and illegal trafficking of explosives. They have been further directed to constitute three members team headed by DDO (R), SDPOs and SHOs which would be responsible to immediately undertake fact finding exercises of the particulars of the valid explosive license holders in their respective districts. DDO (R), SDPO and SHOs would be personally responsible to ensure transportation, import, export and military stores strictly under relevant rules to check misuse of explosive license by clandestine and cancelled movement of explosive. The DCOs have the relevant power of search, seizure, destroy, report, penalise, under rules 105 and 110 of the explosive rules 1940. They have been directed to immediately undertake the legal, administrative exercises under Explosive Act 1984 read with Explosive Rules 1940 and send a comprehensive report about their district to the authority concerned by the 25th of January, 2010.