SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Kurdish forces have launched a security campaign to seize unlicensed firearms and unregistered vehicles in Sulaimani on Thursday.
Esta Media Network reporter Pavel Abdulrahman said the security forces were deployed to several areas and set checkpoints in Sulaimani city.
Spokesman of Asayish in Sulaimani Yaseen Samih said deputy prime minister Qubad Talabani had ordered the security services to launch the campaign in order to end the use of unlicensed firearms and to seize unregistered vehicles.
“The goal is to provide more security and stability for the civilians, to prevent any circumstance that is outside the law and to detain criminals and people wanted by law,” Samih told Esta Media Network.
He further said unregistered vehicles and cars with tinted windows and fake plates would be seized.
A taxi driver who was passing through a security point praised the efforts to end the use of unlicensed firearms in the Kurdistan Region.
“It is a very good thing for the security of the city,” he told Esta Media Network.
The security forces have launched several campaigns in the past months to confiscate unlicensed firearms and vehicles with tinted windows and fake plates.
Despite decisions to prosecute people with unregistered weapons, the use of firearms have increased in the Kurdistan Region. Weapons are often used to settle personal or tribal disputes.
