Law machinery in defenceless corridors

Police officials also placed heavy cemented blocks on the roads leading to the training centres to slow down the speed of the vehicles heading towards the police buildings. The same precautionary measures were also taken at all the entry/exit points of the said training institutes with deployment of armed policemen. The security personnel were equipped with metal detectors and such other modern appliances for thorough search of the private vehicles and also the police vans before their entry into the premises of the police buildings. Policemen took positions at the rooftop of the police buildings putting them on high alert.

A senior police officer at the CPO told The Nation following a wave of terrorism and suicide attack on the buildings of the law enforcement agencies, strict precautionary measures were being taken to provide protection to the lives of the police officials getting training at the police institutes.

Seeking anonymity, he said that some police centres were imparting anti-terrorist and commando training to the police officials, like the Police Lines Qilla Gujjar Singh, Lahore where semi-commando training was being given to the police officials.

Services of the said trained commandos were taken against the terrorists to foil their nefarious designs and to protect the lives of the VIP, VVIPs and important political figures.