District Police Officers of Bahawalpur division were directed to ensure all necessary arrangements for shifting people, living near rivers' banks, and their belongings to safer places

District Police Officers of  Bahawalpur division were directed to ensure all necessary arrangements for shifting people, living near rivers' banks, and their belongings to safer places

BAHAWALPUR(PR)The District Police Officers of three districts in Bahawalpur division were directed to ensure all necessary arrangements for shifting people, living near rivers' banks, and their belongings to safer places as water level in the rivers is rising amidst heavy rainfalls across the country.
Bahawalpur Regional Police Officer (RPO) Riffat Mukhtar Raja also ordered the DPOs to enhance security at the camps established by police, district administration, Rescue 1122, Civil Defence, Livestock and Treasury Department. The RPO directed the DPOs to seek services of Lumberdars and notables of the respective areas near rivers' banks to get the areas evacuated at the earliest. He said that announcements should be made from mosques so that people could move to the relief camps before possible floods. The RPO also ordered to ensure the availability of medicines and the requisite medical equipment at the camps. He also advised the officers to keep a contact with other departments to be updated about flood threats.