The work on Sindh Police Portal is nearing completion and will be formally launched by next week while work on e-policing project in Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur will commence next month.
This was stated in a meeting held in connection with e-Policing Project Sindh at Central Police Office here on Thursday. The meeting was attended by Advisor IT Noman Siagol, IG Sindh Zia-ul-Hasnain, Secretary Home Brigadier Ghulamm Mohammed Mohtaram (Retd), Secretary IT Sindh Mohammed Zakir, Additional IG Sindh Niaz Ahmed Siddiqi, CCPO Azhar Ali Farooqi, IG Prisons Mohammed Yamin Khan, DIG HQ Waseem Ahmed, Project Director e-Policing Tabassum Abbasi and other senior officers.
The meeting was informed that a 50-seat Centralised Call Centre for Police Rescue Services will be set up at Karachi and 15-seat centres in Hyderabad and Karachi. It was stated that all driving licence branches in the Province would be linked through computer network to check issuance of licences from more than one places and that a person having his licence suspended, may not get a licence from any other place.
The meeting was informed that under e-Policing Project, all the police stations in Sindh would be linked through computer network so as to modernise and improve the police functioning and every police station will be provided at least two computers.
The project envisages a computer training programme for educated cops in the province to make e-policing fully functional. Under the project, work is also in progress on vehicle trekking system, video conferencing system and FM Police Radio.
The project also incorporates the linking of all 20 prisons in the province through computer network, while registration of prisoners, their record and movement would be computerised at data centres in the jails.
A system of video conferencing between all the jails and High court would be started. On the occasion IGP observed that implementation of e-policing project would greatly help in modernising the police department and making its performance effective.