Chandigarh, Feb. 20 -- The Anti-Drug Reward Policy introduced recently by the Punjab Police has begun yielding results, with the police claiming to be receiving vital inputs from the public about drug smuggling.

Since September 1 last year, ever since the policy was introduced to provide monetary rewards to police personnel and informers, over Rs.1 crore reward money has been disbursed to 522 persons till date, according to data gathered from the Anti Narcotics Task Force (ANTF).

ANTF officials said that in at least four cases, information from a "source" in the general public enabled the police to seize heroin weighing more than 5 kg.

In one major case involving the recovery of over 43 kg of heroin by Amritsar rural police, along with...