KARACHI: Director General Pakistan Rangers Sindh Maj. Gen. Mohammad Saeed has stressed that Karachi needs enhanced number of policemen who must also be fully equipped with modern technologies so that they could efficiently maintain law & order situation of a city with a huge population.
Speaking at a meeting during his visit to the Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry, DG Rangers added that under Safe City Project, high-quality cameras have to be installed all over the city to easily identify and apprehend the culprits while tracker enabled chip-based number plates for vehicles/ motorcycles have to be provided which, if implemented, would surely bring down the street crimes. “The first fundamental requirement is to enhance the number of policemen and install cameras. Secondly, everyone has to participate in order to resolve law and order issues”, he added.
Chairman Businessmen Group & Former President KCCI Siraj Kassam Teli, Vice Chairman BMG Haroon Farooki, President KCCI Junaid Esmail Makda, Senior Vice President Khurram Shahzad, Vice President Asif Sheikh Javaid, Former Presidents AQ Khalil, Majyd Aziz, Iftikhar Ahmed Vohra, Younus Muhammad Bashir and Shamim Ahmed Firpo along with KCCI Managing Committee Members attended the meeting.
DG Rangers pointed out that Karachi has a total of just 31,000 policemen and 110 police stations, of which only 14,000 policemen were available to CCPO on any given day with no helicopter fleet, no forensic labs and no other specialized force. This mere number of police force was responsible to maintain law and order situation of a city which has remained out of state’s writ for a period of 35 to 40 years. “Rangers force comprises of 12,000 troops, of which 5,000 are fixed deployed at the Airport, Consulates, Strategic Installations, Rangers Pickets and Red Zone who cannot be moved. Excluding the Admin Staff, Pakistan Rangers Sindh hardly has 4,000 troops available and it was these 4,000 troops who cleansed Karachi from terrorists and criminals during the last 5 years and they deserve to be acknowledged.
In order to effectively deal with car and motorcycle theft and snatching incidents, DG Rangers stressed the need to introduce tracker enabled chip-based number plates for vehicles/ motorcycles so that these could be linked to Centralized Registration Data Bank which, if interfaced with NADRA and RFID system, would help in easily identifying the owners of vehicles/ motorcycles and also enable police and rangers to monitor the movement of vehicles.
He said that as motorcycles are used in most of the criminal activities, it should be made mandatory for motorcycle manufacturers to put in-built trackers in their motorcycles as done in many cities around the world and also in Lahore. With an in-built tracker installed on every motorcycle and cameras all over the city, it would be easy for law enforcing agencies to quickly arrest criminals, he added.
Chairman BMG & Former President KCCI Siraj Kassam Teli, in his remarks, said that the law and order situation was much better as compared to what it had been before 2013 which was only due to strong voice raised by KCCI against rising lawlessness and the demand for Karachi Operation in which Rangers played the lead role.
