Chandigarh, Mar 19 (Reporter) Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav on Tuesday directed all senior officers to lay effective inter-state and inter-district nakas to monitor the movement of anti-socials, drug smugglers and bootleggers for ensuring free, fair and peaceful Lok Sabha polls. Yadaav also instructed his officers to mobilise the maximum force for area domination and confidence-building measures ahead of the upcoming elections. The DGP was chairing a state-level meeting through video conference at his office with police officers to review preventive measures ahead of elections and apprise them about the guidelines of the Election Commission of India (ECI). Emphasising on the need to build a positive environment in the state, Yadav directed all police officers to do professional policing and strictly adhere to all aspects of the Model Code of Conduct and follow all the instructions and guidelines from the ECI. The instructions of the ECI should be further disseminated to the entire force, he said. Yadav informed the officers that there is a complete ban on issuing new arms licenses. He also directed the CPs, SSPs to ensure the deposition of weapons in compliance with the ECI norms. He also asked CPs and SSPs to frequently carry out checking at gun houses to review the security arrangements and ensure that foolproof arrangements have been made by the gun house owner for safe storage of firearms...////...