City Govt advised administrations of Churches on Tuesday to buy necessary security gadgets and obtain arms licenses to ensure security of the people and their places of worship.
According to details the senior Christian leaders and the administrators of churches met with City Police Officer (CPO) Asrar Abbasi, DCO Sajid Zafarwall and SSP operations Karamat ullah and exchanged views for providing security to the places of worships of the Christian community. During the meeting, the leaders of the community were advised to buy metal detectors, walk-through gates, CCTV cameras and get weapons licenses for security of the Churches.
In this connection CPO Asrar Abbasi said that it was their duty to provide security to the people of every religion without any discrimination. He said that security of churches was also a priority. However, the administrators and members of the communities should also shoulder some responsibilities. They can do so with the provision of security gadgets and by deploying security guards as at times, police personnel are not available in full strength due to their deployment at other sensitive spots.
The DCO assured the Christian leaders that in case of any problems in acquiring weapons licenses, they would be facilitated by the DCO office.