KARACHI, Oct 19: The Police Record and Office Management Information System (PROMIS) is ready for a launch after some minor logistical changes and maintenance of equipment that have already been installed at its designated sites.

This was stated at a meeting presided over by Inspector General of Sindh Police Wajid Ali Durrani held at the central police office in Karachi.

Sindh police information technology director Tabbasum Abid during her presentation stated that the main data centre had been connected with 196 sites, including police stations and commanding offices, throughout the province.

She said that 125 sites had been designed in Karachi, 24 in Hyderabad, seven in Mirpurkhas, 11 each Sukkur and Larkana and one each in the remaining 18 districts of the province.

She informed the participants of the meeting that in the first phase of the project, PROMIS would be able to feed information of FIRs and daily station diary (DSD), assignment of investigation and progress in the central database.

Criminal records with pictures and fingerprints would be included in the second phase, she added.

She stated that the system was linked with the Federal Investigation Agency headquarters and the system had the capability to link with the National Database and Registration Authority and the National Alien Registration Authority.

Following the successful launch of the project, all FIRs would be computerised in the English, Urdu and Sindhi languages, the participants of the meeting were informed.

“The system is designed to compile data of various police stations in the central database at the IG office,” she said.

The inspector general of Sindh issued directives to the DIGP (east) to co-ordinate with the relevant officials for the start of the operation of the system at the 125 designated sites in Karachi.

He also directed the DIGP (administration), Karachi, to identify and enlist computer-literate police officers for initiating the project at an accelerated pace.

The Sindh IG also constituted a steering committee comprising the DIGP (administration), the DIGP (director general of finance), the director of information technology and the AIGP (administration) to finalise the matter for the successful launch of the project at the earliest.—PPI