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“If police personnel on duty find a person in an inebriated condition, they will have to arrest the person under the Prohibition Act,” the senior official said. These directions are issued to maintain law and order in the city in the run up to the elections,” a top police official said. AHMEDABAD: As the voting day approaches in Gujarat , Ahmedabad cops are intensifying their crackdown on liquor mafia and gambling den operators.The city police have created a new message category to dispatch teams to deal with alcohol-fuelled brawls: “Drink And Fight”.The latest initiative has been launched on the directions of the Ahmedabad police commissioner, A K Singh.When a police control room van receives the message, it has now become incumbent upon its personnel to use a breath analyzer on suspects.A senior police official said that cops will have keep breath analyzers in every vehicle attached to policing and police stations. “If the complainant who called the cops refuses to press charges, the cops themselves will have to become complainants.”The written message also mentions that in case of raids on gambling dens, cops will have to send the report on the same day or face disciplinary action.A top police official said that it was noticed in a few cases after police arrived at the scene on getting a message about drunken brawls, the caller to the control room would often compromise and the cops had to return empty handed.“This direction will enable cops to become complainants if they find a person to be drunk even if the caller refuses to lodge a complaint..