RAWALPINDI: City Traffic Police (CTP) have netted 176 beggars from main city roads during ongoing grand operation launched in January while 95 cases have been registered against the professional beggars.
According to Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Rawalpindi, Shoaib Khurram Janbaz, the cases have been registered in various police stations of the city. He said that city traffic police is trying to eliminate the begging from city roads and during its efforts, as many as 176 beggars were rounded up and handed over to district police during the period.
He informed that 79 beggar children netted from city roads were handed over to Child Protection Bureau (CPB).
He further said that special anti-beggars squad of CTP and Rawalpindi district police is conducting raids at different roads and intersections and action in accordance with the law is taken against beggars.
Directives have also been issued to the squad to register cases against the beggars and the report in this regard should be sent to CTO office on daily basis, he said.
