Inspector General Police Sindh, Asad Jehangir informed business community that police department is planning to open more Madadgar Centres in the city. Speaking at a meeting of Site Association of Industry (SAI), he advised business community to come forward and help the police department in establishing new Madadgars-15, so that police could provide better service to citizens and safe their life and property.
Discussing the performance of Madadgar-15 in Site, he said that this was the first centre established in SITE as a joint venture in partnership of business community and the industrialists of the area.
The SITE association played a very active role in its establishment and now it is a role model. Eleven more Madadgar-15 centres are working in Karachi with the help of business community who provided accommodation, mobiles, equipment, computers, fax machines etc.
Asad Jehangir said that police department is using 8,000 officers and jawans for maintaining security on different occasions. Their work has multiplied manifolds after spreading of germs of terrorism in the city. Terrorists are making blasts in public transports, vehicles and at important places to terrorise the general public and to sabotage the government activities and the projects of mass importance going on in the city.
Besides, 1.5 percent riots erupt daily due to non-supply of water, breakdown of electricity in which 50-2,000 persons are usually involved including religious processions and police department has to deploy police force to control them. In addition to it police department has to provide security to ministers and VIPs for their protection and they do it within the limited resources.
According to SAI press release, answering to a question relating to traffic problems, he said that traffic has two dimensions - (1) traffic congestion and (2) the other is safety and we give priority to the safety. He told that traffic congestion is due to inadequate infrastructure, repairing of damaged roads etc. Although, the roads are being widened yet the roads are the same. The more roads are widened the more speed of vehicle increases and the number of pedestrians also increases, which causes road accidents.
He said that in road accidents, 52 percent are pedestrians, 25 percent motorcyclists and 12 percent drivers, in which the victims lose their lives, limbs, and other parts of the body. In motorcycle accidents 37 percent are head injuries and he advised the motorcyclists to use helmets for their own safety.
IG Sindh referred to a report of Asian Development Bank according to which loss in road accidents is one percent of GDP of Pakistan. He also said that recently the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Shaukat Aziz has issued directives and announced a package to improve traffic system in Karachi by adopting new techniques on the pattern of modern cities in the world.