Police command, control centre to start work in June: IG.

Byline: Saleem Shahid

QUETTA -- Inspector General (IG) of Balochistan Mohsin Hassan Butt has said that the command and control system in Quetta will become operational in June.

Briefing police officials at his office, the IG said the command and control system was being established at a cost of Rs15 million and it would fulfil the requirements of Safe City Project under which sensitive locations of Quetta would be monitored through 400 closed-circuit TV cameras.

The IG said that the Pakistan's largest video wall was going to be installed at the command and control room where emergency movement of civil and military officials, law and order situation and security arrangements for national and religious events would also be monitored.

He said that the Balochistan police had formed an information technology group with the help of Punjab police and IT Board and 700 computer operators were being trained to run the command and control system.

400 CCTV cameras to be installed to monitor sensitive locations

He said that the record of police personnel and expenditure, criminals, FIRs and police stations would be digitised and criminal record management system, human resources system and complaint management system were also being developed with the help of latest technology.

Memorandums of understanding would be signed with the Punjab IT Board and Punjab and Sindh police departments to further boost up Balochistan police information system, he said.

Mr Butt said that the first police desks at a shopping mall and a hospital and the...