Women Protection Cell app to be launched

The Sindh Police plans to launch a mobile application for the provincial Women Protection Cell (WPC), with the aim to curb crimes against women and children.

The decision was taken during a departmental meeting on Tuesday held on the matter of human rights violations in the province, and the WPC.

The purpose of introducing the mobile application at a provincial level is to identify and penalise persons and groups involved in crimes against women and children, it was said at the meeting.

A web portal for similar purposes is also being introduced for the WPC. The meeting was told that preparation for the portal is complete and staff training will begin next week, after which the portal will be launched as a pilot project.

Senior officers of the provincial police force, including the headquarters DIG, investigation DIG, operations admin DIG, Karachi AIG, Central Police Office information technology director, SP Suhai Aziz, and AIGs, DIGs, district SSPs of Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana, Sukkur, Shaheed Benazirabad, and Mirpurkhas, and other relevant officials attended the meeting, chaired by Sindh IGP Mushtaq Ahmed Mahar.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 7^th, 2020.