PUNJAB HAS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF ARMS LICENSE HOLDERS IN THE COUNTRY

-CHECKING OF LICIT AND ILLICIT FIREARMS BECOMES A PRIORITY AREA TO ENSURE PEACE, HARMONY AND LAW & ORDER-IG CRIME
-TECHNICAL WORKSHOP HELD OF LUDHIANA & JALANDHAR RANGES
-CIVIL AND POLICE OFFICIALS ATTENDED THE WORKSHOP
Ludhiana, May 29, 2017: The Punjab has the highest number of arms license holders in the country. That is why checking of licit and illicit firearms within the state of Punjab, becomes a priority area for the State Government to ensure peace, harmony and law & order for the citizens at large. A state database of arms licences is being created. This was disclosed by Inspector General of Police (Crime) Mrs Shashi Prabha IPS during technical workshop held at Police Academy Phillaur today.
She informed that The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has notified in Rule 11 of the Arms Rules, 2016 for generation of Unique Identification Number (UIN) for every arms licensee in NDAL-ALIS (National Database of Arms License – Arms License Issuance) system developed by National Informatics Center (NIC) with the objective to check proliferation and misuse of arms and ammunition. Such proliferation is a serious challenge to the internal security of the country and providing the proposed UIN would create/update a dynamic central database of the arms licenses issued across the country.
The State of Punjab has the highest number of arms license holders in the country, Being a border state and having faced black days of terrorism, checking licit and illicit firearms within the state of Punjab, becomes a priority area for the State Government to ensure peace, harmony and law & order for the citizens at large. So keeping in view these objectives DGP Punjab to conduct state level technical workshops of the licensing authorities and District Police Chiefs to apprise them of the technical aspects of the provisions of the Arms Act, 1959 and the Arms Rules, 2016 to meet the objectives.
In this regard, first state level technical workshop has been organized at Patiala. Today, on May 29, 2017 the fourth and the last workshop in the series of workshops was conducted at the Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur today. The workshop was attended by senior police and civil officers including CPs, DCs, DIG, SSP of Ludhiana & Jalandhar Ranges.