Over 600 cops to be deployed across capital

The police have chalked out a new plan to overcome street crime


July 11, 2017
The police have chalked out a new plan to overcome street crime. PHOTO: INP

ISLAMABAD: The police have chalked out a new plan to overcome street crime and have divided the city into various beats to be patrolled by 600 policemen.

As per plan, police sources said that city has been into divided into sub-sectors and a police official of ASI rank along with one policeman and one FC personnel would be assigned duty in each sub-sector.

Their duty timings will start from 5:30 pm and will continue till 11:00 pm while a total of 600 police officials along with FC would perform patrolling duties. All relevant SDPOs and SHOs will conduct checking of duties of police officials and brief them about effective policing measures.

Several steps had been taken earlier to control crime in the city which included creation of halting points,constitution of Muhafiz squads and deployment of policemen at markets.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 11th, 2017.

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