Tag: Punjab Safe City Authority

  • 4,000 Safe City cameras to be installed in Rawalpindi to control crime

    4,000 Safe City cameras to be installed in Rawalpindi to control crime

    As part of the Rawalpindi Safe City Project, the administration is finalising a plan to monitor every section of the city by placing 4,000 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras on the roads.

    A spokesman for the Commissioner’s Office stated that Commissioner Saqib Manan had presided over a meeting to discuss the status of the Rawalpindi Safe City Project. He said that in order to increase surveillance and keep a close check on criminal activity in Rawalpindi, the Punjab government had chosen to engage in a contract with the Safe City Authority to put CCTV cameras in the city, according to The News.

    The meeting was informed that 950 locations had been chosen in Rawalpindi where around 4,000 cameras would be installed to monitor the city.

    He stated that the integrated system these CCTV cameras will operate under would assist reduce crime and strengthen the city’s law and order situation. Along with car tracking and surveillance, the idea would aid the police and the local government in managing traffic signals. Additionally, the project would be crucial in providing security during significant public events.

    In order to preserve peace and order in large cities, traffic control, and other public amenities, he claimed that current technology was employed everywhere; this system would also be implemented in Rawalpindi.

    A control and command centre would be built at the City Police Office, according to the spokesperson. He continued by saying that it would govern quick emergency and police responses, including intelligent traffic management, police unit dispatch, Rescue 1122 response, criminal identification, and virtual surveillance.

  • Lahore Police arrested 648 dacoits, recovering more than Rs27 crore in three months

    Lahore Police arrested 648 dacoits, recovering more than Rs27 crore in three months

    Lahore Police has recently revealed performance statistics on eliminating crime during the first three months of 2022.

    According to Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Lahore Additional IG Fayyaz Ahmad Dev, the first three months of the current year were peaceful in terms of overall law, order and security.

    He stated that the Lahore Police Department has applied advanced operational techniques, effective modalities, and systemic reforms to help bolster its force’s capacity to limit violence and preserve tranquility in the city.

    Performance Statistics

    Lahore Police detained 648 wanted members of 253 dacoit gangs and recovered cash and precious items valued at more than Rs27 crore.

    From the criminals, police recovered nearly 70 vehicles, 1,123 motorcycles, 14 laptops, and 843 cell phones. During the city’s big anti-illegal weapons operation, Lahore Police detained 1,214 criminals and registered 1,207 cases against them. From these criminals, police confiscated 05 Kalashnikovs, 90 rifles, 41 guns, 1,007 pistols, 01 carbine, 07 revolvers, and over 6,000 bullets.

    During the last three months, police arrested 1,973 criminals, filed 1,939 FIRs against them, and recovered more than 19 kg heroin, 843 kg charas, three kg ice, 50 kg opium, and 13,815 liters of liquor from them.

    Likewise, the Lahore Police Department nabbed 1,119 gambling suspects and filed 237 cases against them, collecting more than Rs23 lakh 69 thousand in gambling money. Moreover, the Punjab Police is aggressively chasing violators of the tenancy registration, displaying weapons, and violation of the Loudspeaker Act throughout Punjab. There were 1,117 incidents of exhibiting firearms, 4,795 cases of illegal possession of arms, and 624 licenses cancelled.

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    According to a Punjab Police spokesperson, 882 cases of tenancy law violations were reported in the metropolis, with 1,233 people arrested. Similarly, 304 cases of violation of the Loudspeaker Act were registered, 310 individuals were arrested, and 1,203 cases of exhibiting and carrying illegal weapons were registered, with stern legal action being taken.

    Special squads have been created on the orders of IG Punjab Rao Sardar Ali Khan to apprehend the culprits, while the effectiveness of the Anti-Riot Force, Dolphin Squad, and Police Response Unit has also been improved. The Commander of Lahore Police is closely watching the productivity of police officers in order to meet crime-control objectives.

  • Lahore police launch app to verify domestic workers

    Lahore police launch app to verify domestic workers

    The Lahore police have introduced the ‘Pehchaan App’ so that the public can access FIR and criminal records before hiring a domestic worker.  

    The Pehchaan App is easily available on the App Store and anyone can download it. Users have to register with CNIC number before accessing records.  

    An inaugural ceremony was held at the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Lahore Zulfiqar Hameed’s office. The smartphone application is developed with the help of Punjab Safe Cities Authorities (PSCA) by CCPO Hameed.

    DIG Investigation Dr Inam Waheed and SSP Investigation Zeeshan Asghar also attended the ceremony.

    In the initial phase, the App is being introduced in Lahore as a pilot project.  

  • Lahoris evade e-challans with laminated number plates

    Negligence of the City Traffic Police, Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) and Excise Taxation and Narcotics Control (ET&NC) Department has been exposed as Lahoris resort to laminating or tampering their vehicles’ registration plates to evade e-challans and surveillance through PSCA cameras.

    According to a report, while non-computerised plates are not uncommon in the provincial capital, a significant increase has been observed in the use of tampered and laminated registration plates as well.

    There are lamination sheets available in the market and once applied, the PSCA cameras cannot read the number plates, thus providing drivers protection from e-challan, the report quoted a trader at one of Lahore’s largest automotive market, the Montgomery Road.

    The shopkeeper said that these lamination sheets were not commonly available and are only sold secretly. He further said that a person could get a single number plate laminated for Rs150-200 in parts of Chauburji, Township and Johar Town.

    According to a PSCA official, the tactics used by the people to hide their number plates are creating a hurdle in penalising traffic violators. The official said that the authority can only catch such people when they are on a surveillance operation, otherwise, it is the responsibility of the traffic police and the ET&NC Department to prevent this from happening.

    The report quoted an ET&NC official as saying that the department was not entertaining complaints related to computerised plates as their role was to only issue them besides helping in the enforcement of its display. “Chapter 8 of the Motor Vehicle Ordinance mandates cops to keep a check on improper and tampered number plates.”

    Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Captain (r) Syed Hammad Abid, on the other hand, said that the traffic police were penalising people whose number plates were found to be fake, tampered or laminated. “We have penalised 64,283 persons for driving without registered number plates and 76,655 for having improper ones.”