Police devise new safety patrol plan

More than 20 vehicles will monitor streets of capital

ISLAMABAD:

Islamabad Police have devised a new sector safety patrolling plan to ensure effective security in the capital, including more than 20 vehicles that would patrol each street of every sector.

Police sources said this plan would be launched with immediate effect and police officials deputed at police stations from the rank of constable to inspector would perform patrolling duties in a particular area.

Each policeman would be rotated after six months and would be transferred to other zones. He said that purpose of this patrolling plan was to eradicate crime from the city and ensure the protection of the lives and property of the citizens.

The source said that it has been decided to launch a crackdown against drug pushers and those involved in street crime. The sources said that patrolling time had been devised after mapping timings of crime incidents in various locations of the city while all Superintendents of Police (SP) had been directed to ensure implementation.

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He said that research or mapping of the timing of crime incidents has been conducted and effective steps would be ensured to control crime. It has been also decided to erect halting points in various areas of the city and maintain high vigilance and effective checking. Different halting points would be created to keep an eye over suspicious persons and vehicles in order to curb the crime and criminal activities, the source said.

As per the plan, all exit and entry points of Islamabad will be also cordoned off randomly along with other places at different venues and times.

In order to prevent street crime within the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), the source said that Islamabad police had adopted a proactive policy and hoped to get success through its effective plan.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 15^th, 2022.