KARACHI: Police have informed the Sindh High Court that 800 body cameras have been purchased to advance the skills of police in order to curb the crime as well as for surveillance of police officials during operations.

The officials of training section of police in compliance with earlier court order have submitted a report before a single bench of the SHC headed by Justice Salahuddin Panhwar on behalf of the deputy inspector general of police (DIG training).

The report said that there were various police training centres in the province.

It was contended in the report that the syllabus was also revised and experts had been hired with regard to geofencing training and maintained that police had purchased 800 body cameras.

Another report asserted that the University of Karachi was seriously working on degree programme in the field of digital forensic science and technology and set to launch the same soon after approval from the statutory bodies.

However, the bench noted that although there had been efforts on the subject, but the same was being hanging for no logical reasons and thus called report in this regard.

It further said that since the SHC had already taken cognisance that advance science and technology must be introduced in police system in order to find out the real truth and investigation especially in heinous cases thus, the universities of whole province were required to provide education of advance science studies.

A report filed by additional chief secretary and secretary universities stated that five varsities were introducing digital forensic science courses and other universities would also start offering courses with regard to digital forensics, internet security and cyber security.

However, the bench noted that secretary universities and boards had failed to submit a detailed report whether all universities, including Sindh Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority (STEVTA) had introduced four-year degree in forensic education as well as other related subjects.

Published in Dawn, October 31st, 2022