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A total of 175 people have been arrested in police drives in Rajshahi Range. Police of different districts in the range arrested them for various offences in the last 24 hours.
This information was given in a press release sent from the media cell of the Rajshahi Range office on Friday morning.
According to the release, different units of Rajshahi Range police conducted a total of 145 drives in the last 24 hours. A total of 175 accused were arrested in these special drives.
Of those arrested, 74 are warranted accused, 18 are convicted offenders, 73 are accused in various cases under investigation and 10 were arrested under other preventive measures.
Alongside curbing crime, police conducted drives maintaining a zero-tolerance policy to eradicate drugs. In these, 26 drug dealers and drug users were arrested red-handed.
In the anti-drug drives, 3 grams of heroin, 589 yaba pills, 214 tapentadol tablets, 1 kilogram 240 grams of cannabis and 810 litres of locally brewed liquor were recovered.
Alongside curbing crime, Rajshahi Range police have been providing uninterrupted services to ordinary people as part of people-friendly policing.
According to the report, 1,113 citizens received various police services in the last 24 hours. The total number of service recipients this month stands at 16,644.
Rajshahi Range police said such regular drives and public service activities will continue in order to ensure the safety of people’s lives and property and build a crime-free society.
