Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Niaz Ahmed Siddiqui has claimed that due to IMEI jamming system introduced in collaboration with City Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) the incidents of mobile phone snatching had decreased up to 25 percent from last month in the metropolis.
He said this, while addressing a symposium on "Street Crime, Women and Children" jointly organised by National Association for Business, Professional and Agricultural Women and Red Crescent Society, Sindh here at Hilal-e-Ahmer House.
He said that the police had formed a strategy to curb street crime and robberies in the city. He informed that Capital City Police had decided to increase the police mobile squad besides improving the services of 15 help line to provide security to the citizen.
CCPO informed that for the convenience of citizen, Police was also lodging its web site through which citizen could access the updated records of CPLC, National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) and Anti Car Lifting Cell (ACLC).
Notable Psychologist Dr Noor Jehan said that large inequalities in wealth distribution, lack of education, prevailing circumstances and environment had created domestic violence in our society, which was affecting innocent women and children.