In rare move, police to prepare computerised crime site plans.

Byline: Waseem Ashraf Butt

GUJRAT -- In a bid to save time and exploitation of the aggrieved, the Gujranwala police have raised a team of personnel who will prepare computerised crime scene site plans in heinous cases.

Police officials from Crime Scene Units of Gujranwala, Gujrat, Sialkot, Mandi Bahauddin, Narowal and Hafizabad police have been given six-week computer training by experts at the regional headquarters.

These officials have been trained in preparing the computerised crime site plans that will replace the ongoing practice of relying on traditional planners with no formal training.

Gujranwala Regional Police Officer Tariq Abbas Qureshi told Dawn that the capability of all such ancestral/inherited private planners was alarming because they had no official certificate relating to expertise in preparation of a crime site plan.

He said that there were complaints about demands of illegal gratification by the investigation officer concerned.

Later, the officer would tell the inquiry committee that he sought money from the complainant to get a site plan prepared from a private planner, depicting that preparation of site plans, also...