The deal was approved in a meeting at CM House attended by Home Minister Zia Lanjar, Mayor Karachi Murtaza Wahab, Chief Secretary Asif Hyder Shah, IG Police Riffat Mukhtar, MD NRTC Brigadier Asim Ishaque, DG Sindh Safe Cities Authority Asif Aijaz Shaikh, and others.
The CM was informed that as part of the Smart Safe City initiative, 1300 CCTV cameras with FR and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) capacity would be deployed at 300 places in the Red Zone and Airport Corridor within eight hours after a solar backup.
The cameras would be linked to the Central Police Office’s Command and Control Center, and there are plans to create a permanent C&CC at the Karachi Police Office.
