Govt to start work on Peshawar Safe City Project
According to official sources on Sunday, the project will officially commence after Eid, with 700 cameras installed at 100 key locations across the city. In the second phase, the Safe City project will expand to southern districts, including Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan, where preliminary work has already been completed.
The project will become operational in the coming days, enhancing security and surveillance in the region.
Background
In January 2023, K-P police and a private consultant firm signed a contract for the Peshawar Safe City Project which was to be completed in five months.
K-P Inspector General of Police Moazzam Jah Ansari, Project Director Safe City Peshawar Waqar Ahmad, project consultant team and other high-ups attended the ceremony.
Project Director Waqar Ahmad and CEO Carbonate Pvt Jawad Ayub Baig signed the agreement.
It may be recalled that Safe City Project Peshawar is aimed at making the urban areas of Peshawar safe and secure through technology-driven-efforts, including installation of CCTV cameras.
The main purpose of the project is to combat terrorism and other crimes particularly street crimes, car lifting and motorcycles theft through the best use of latest gadgets.
With the installation of high resolution CCTV cameras every point will come under the police surveillance and it will not be possible for law breakers to escape camera's eye.
Around 915 points have been identified under this project.
Besides optical fiber cable on 1,000 kilometre, 25 LTE towers would be installed across the city. K-P Police integrated command control and communication centre C3 would be established at police station East Cantt.
Salient features of the mega project included surveillance, integrated emergency response.
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