Digitalised compilation of criminal record underway at police stations

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Digitalised compilation of data coupled with needed up-gradation of the criminal record is presently underway in 75 different police stations in Karachi.

The initiative to be extended to other police stations in Sindh is meant to help develop database of held suspects at all police stations and prisoners in all jails across Sindh, police department sources said here on Thursday.

Sharing details of the programme, they said the scheme is part of measures being adopted to introduce reforms in the Sindh police department through technological support.

Meanwhile, IGP AD Khawaja chaired a meeting at the Central Police Office (CPO) to review the pace of work initiated under the department’s technology induced policy to curb crime across the province.

He, on the occasion, directed officials to streamline software programme being developed for registration of smartphones along with subscribers’ identity module (SIM).

With regard to computerisation of the CRO and compilation of a database of the prisoners, he said it was another critical component of the policy adopted by the provincial police.

The IGP, on the occasion, formed a committee comprising senior police officers and chief of the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) to prepare a proposal for software development aimed at up-gradation and linkage of criminal record system (CRO) with law-enforcement agencies and jails of other provinces, besides the judiciary and other stakeholders.

Police DIG of IT Department while briefing the meeting, which was also attended by Karachi Police chief Mushtaq Mahar, Zubair Habib of the CPLC, said steps were being taken to preserve record of the fingerprints of all jail inmates and the suspects lodged in police lock-ups.

Apart from basic particulars in the data, computerised national identity card (CNIC) numbers along with photographs and fingerprints of criminals would also be made part of the database, he said.

Sindh police department actively engaged in developing the CRO system along modern lines was said to be also in contact with the NADRA.

The meeting further informed that a comprehensive plan for strong coordination with the federal authority had been established to ensure prompt access to finger-matching technology and criminals’ records.

This was said to improve the traditional investigation methods of police, besides enabling its investigators to collect required facts in comparatively little time.