RAWALPINDI: Police have established a district command and control room to monitor the movements of their vehicles, especially those escorting foreign experts working at different development projects including China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and oil drilling rigs in Attock district.

Besides monitoring the activities of police vehicles, the control room would keep an eye on movements of suspected persons in banks and educational institutions. The vehicles at interchanges would also be on the watch.

District police officer Attock, Zahid Nawaz Marwat, said the monitoring system was the need of the hour as more than ten incidents of terrorism, including the attacks on former provincial home minister Sujah Khanzada and Kamra airbase, had happened in the district since 2010.

“Police vehicle, equipped with location tracking system and those escorting foreign experts working at different development projects would be monitored from the command and control room,” DPO Marwat said, adding the move would help in catching criminals and terror suspects.

He said in addition to computerising the record of criminals, the police had also digitised particulars of tenants in the district.

He said the launch of emergency alert system would play a crucial role in mobilising police force in case of any emergency.

The DPO said with the help of “policecom.policecom” software, the record of police stations was being digitised and all of the FIRs are being computerised. And all police stations had been provided with facility of video conferencing.

Published in Dawn, October 25th, 2016