Police to use IT to control crime
Steps are being taken to reform the capital police department to improve its ability to combat crime with the help of information technology (IT), Islamabad Inspector General (IG) Aamir Zulfiqar Khan said on Saturday. Talking in a Radio Pakistan’s current affairs programme, he said reforms were being introduced in capital police department for strengthening its policing policies. He said agenda to reform the Police department has been the foremost task of Prime Minister Imran Khan and upon posting of the IG Police at Islamabad he was strictly instructed to control the land grabbers, drug mafias, and to check all other crimes. Inspector General said the office of Islamabad Police would soon be computerised. He said they intend to build 10 model police stations and also try to turn all checkposts into electronic checkpoints.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 11th, 2020.