Murad approves Rs5.5bn Smart Safe City project
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Murad approves Rs5.5bn Smart Safe City project
NRTC, Sindh police ink agreement
KARACHI Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad
Ali Shah approved the signing of an agreement of Rs5.5 billion between the
Sindh Police Department and NRTC to launch the first phase of the Smart Safe
City project in the red zone.
The approval of the agreement was made in a meeting
held at CM House and was 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 told that the Smart Safe City project 1300
CCTV cameras would be installed at 300 sites in Red Zone & Airport Corridor
with FR and Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) capability within eight
hours solar back.
To a question, CM was told that the 193 km OFC network
would connect 18 police stations. The cameras would relate to the Command &
Control Centre of CPO and then a permanent C&CC would be developed at KPO.
The smart safe city project would have the capability
of facial recognition and a number plate recognition system. Under the system
monitoring of hospitals for criminals/suspects, multiple camera tracking
against suspects and response, database management of criminals and integration
with National, Criminal, and other databases.
The chief minister said that the project was much
awaited and finally it was seeing the day of light and hoped that the project
would achieve its purpose. “I want you NRTC to complete the first phase in the
one and half years,” he said. The NRTC had given him two years to complete the
first phase.
The safety system is a safeguard of the city through
Artificial Intelligence based digital transformation. The CM said that Karachi
has more than 20.38 million population which would increase further by 20230.
Therefore, to control crime and critical incidents, public unrest, disaster
management and traffic safety were his top priorities and their solution lay in
technological integration and cyber security.
The conceptual framework of the smart safe city
Karachi includes swift delivery- response and services- digital forensics and
analysis of incidents, situational awareness through one window operation,
real-time monitoring of activities, systematised traffic & crowed examining
and monitoring, timely action against the untoward incident and intelligent
data co-relations from a database.
Murad Ali Shah termed the launching of the first phase
as good news for the people of the City.
Director General Sindh Safe Cities Authority Asif
Aijaz Shaikh and Managing Director NRTC Brig Asim Ishaque signed the agreement
in the presence of Sindh chief minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, Chief Secretary
Asif Hyder Shah and others.
