Sindh Home Minister, Dr Zulfiqar Mirza has said the Sindh government has formed a special unit to take action against extortionists. He was speaking at inaugural ceremony of Witness Protection Programme about the Complaint Center established in home department at Artillery Meidan police station here on Wednesday.
He said the police have recently busted a gang of extortionists with more than 25 members. The Home Minister said the government has also started a Witness Protection Programme to provide security to the witnesses. He said in past many criminals were released by the courts because the police had no witness against them. Mirza cited that the idea to put "Witness Protection Programme" in place was conceived after observing that the witnesses remained reluctant to come forward because of fear, especially in homicide cases, cases of terrorism and other heinous crimes. He said that now this programme would ensure protection to witnesses in major criminal cases from physical harm and intimidation.
He said that it was the demand of Karachiites that there should be a center to lodge their complaints against the police, as well as, crimes. He said that the aim of this awareness campaign is to educate people about the objective of the complaint center. He said that anyone could lodge his or her complaint against target killings, robberies, as well as, against police and even against the home department.
He said that police officers of good repute would run the complaint center, with an aim to eliminate crime from the metropolis. Mirza said that this programme has been started with the help of reputable citizens, adding that the role of Medicam Company is also appreciated which is helping the police department to achieve the goal of eliminating crime from Karachi. The Home Minister said that the billboards would be erected throughout Sindh in order to educate the citizens about the objective of the complaint center.
He said that so far 1416 complaints have been received through phone calls, fax, email and by hand. He said 975 complaints were received by hands, 02 through emails, 72 through fax and 367 through phones calls. He said 451 complaints were against the police, two against the target killings, 10 against robberies, 33 against extortion, 07 against vehicle snatching, 34 against domestic violence, four against education department, 53 against kidnapping, four against home department, three against rangers, four against anti-corruption department and three complaints were received against FIA.
The campaign for complaint center was launched with the help of Meidcam Group of Companies. Consultant on Home Affairs Sharfuddin Memon, IG Sindh Sultan Salahuddin Babar Kahattak, Capital City Police Officer Karachi (CCPO) Fayyaz Leghari, DIG South Zone Ghulam Nabi Memon, Khalil Ahmad Nainnitalwala Chairman Medicam group of companies, SP Saddar Town Irshad Ali Raza Sehar and others were also present on the occasion.
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