Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Karachi Niaz Ahmed Siddiqi has said that a "modern model" will be worked out in co-ordination with police department and community to further expand the scope of community policing.
He described close liaison between police and the community as an important need of the hour to control crimes and surveillance of criminals. He was speaking as chief guest on the occasion of receiving two mobile vans donated by PECHS for community policing.
He said community policing had produced encouraging results in the jurisdiction of various police stations, but that system was restricted only to mobile patrolling and chowkidari, which needed to be expanded through mutual co-ordination.
He said the society should try to show good attitude and not to be sarcastic to a convict having committed an offence once, so that he might not turn into a habitual criminal.
Capital City Police Officer said that in Karachi two persons lost life and five suffered injuries daily in traffic accidents while blind and deaf people did not become victim of traffic accidents.
He called for joint efforts in community policing to control traffic accidents and for greater awareness of the society. He was of the view that crimes and criminal groups could be controlled through strong linkage between police and community.
Earlier, Community Policing Chief Saleem Farooqi said the community policing was a joint venture of community and police which was being successfully managed in the jurisdiction of Ferozabad, Bahadurabad New Town, Kharadar, Eidgah and Preedy Police stations.
He said that under the system, police personnel remained on 24-hour patrolling on mobiles provided by the community and so far 16 such mobiles were in operation on which community was incurring an expenditure of Rs 0.5 million a month.
He said that results of community policing in the jurisdiction of some police stations had proved very successful and it was gaining popularity among the business people.
He informed that during the next one month, the number of mobiles operating under community policing would reach 24. Saleem Farooqi said the system of community policing had emerged as a model in the improvement of law and order.
In order to control the crimes and ensure its successful operation, it was necessary that at least 60 percent police force of concerned police station should be made available for the system. The Home Secretary Brigadier Ghulam Mohammed Mohtaram (Retd) and others also spoke on the occasion.