PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have established an incentive-based Police Information Network (PIN) to serve as a platform for the citizens to win significant amounts of cash reward for sharing credible information about terrorists and their facilitators.

The network is initially being launched in Peshawar and will later be extended to other parts of the province. With the launch of PIN, citizens of Peshawar will be able to earn up to Rs100,000 without compromising their identities as reward for informing police about terrorists, extortionists, target killers and their facilitators.

According to a statement issued here on Sunday, the decision to launch PIN was taken at a high-level meeting held here the other day chaired by IGP Nasir Khan Durrani.

It was decided that a lot of valuable intelligence could be obtained from the citizens provided they were confident that their identities would remain confidential. The meeting also chalked out the SOP for the working of PIN.

According to the SOP, PIN will be personally handled by senior most officers, including DIG CTD, CCPO, SSP CTD and SSP Peshawar. The citizens having any credible intelligence about the said categories will only have to send the term PIN as SMS on mobile phones of the above mentioned officers. These senior officers will then be contacting the sender personally for obtaining the information. Though unprecedented the involvement of senior most officers will help build public trust and credibility of PIN.

Platforms like PIN are being used globally by different LEAs involved in counter-terrorism and crime control.

Published in Dawn, May 23rd, 2016