CM Sindh approves Rs5.5bn to launch Smart Safe City’s first phase

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2 years ago

KARACHI: The first phase of the Smart Safe City project will be launched in Karachi’s red zone thanks to an agreement between the Sindh Police Department and NRTC that was approved by Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah for Rs5.5 billion.

Home Minister Zia Lanjar, Mayor Karachi 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 attended the meeting that resulted in the agreement’s adoption at CM House.

The CM was informed that 1300 CCTV cameras with FR and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) capacity would be deployed at 300 locations in the Red Zone & Airport Corridor as part of the Smart Safe City initiative within eight hours of solar back.

The cameras would be connected to the Central Police Office’s Command and Control Center, and there are plans to build a permanent C&CC at the Karachi Police Office.

The smart safe city project would be equipped with a number plate recognition system and facial recognition capabilities.

The technology will make it easier to keep an eye out for criminals and suspects in hospitals, track suspects using numerous cameras and respond to them, manage criminal databases, and integrate with other databases, including national and criminal databases.

The chief minister expressed hope that the project would fulfill its intended purpose and noted that it had been eagerly anticipated and was now finally beginning to take shape.

He declared, “I want NRTC to finish the first phase in the year and a half.” He had been allotted two years by the NRTC to finish the first phase.

Through digital transformation powered by artificial intelligence, the safety system protects the city. According to the CM, Karachi’s population of about 20.38 million is expected to rise by 20230. Therefore, his top concerns were public unrest, disaster management, traffic safety, and the control of crime and critical occurrences. Technology integration and cyber security were the means by which these were to be achieved.

Rapid delivery, reaction, and services are part of the smart, safe city Karachi conceptual framework, digital forensics and incident analysis; one-window situational awareness; real-time activity monitoring; systematized traffic and crowd inspection and monitoring; prompt action against the undesirable incidence; and astute data correlations from a database.

The first phase’s inauguration, according to Murad Ali Shah, is wonderful news for the City’s residents.

Staff Reporter