Peshawar:
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to start working with the Peshawar Safe City project.
According to official sources on Sunday, the project will officially start after Eid, with 700 cameras installed on 100 key spaces across the city. In the second phase, the Safe City project is expanded to southern districts, including Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan, where the preliminary work has already been completed.
The project will be operational in the coming days and improves security and monitoring in the region.
Background
In January 2023, the KP police and a private consulting firm signed a contract for the Peshawar Safe City project to be terminated in five months.
KP Inspector General for 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 is remembered that Safe City Project Peshawar is aimed at making the urban areas of Peshawar safe and secure through technology-driven marks, including installation of CCTV cameras.
The main purpose of the project is to combat terrorism and other crimes, especially street crimes, car lifting and motorcycles theft through the best use of the latest gadgets.
With the installation of high resolution, high resolution CCTV cameras come under police surveillance, and it will not be possible for offenders to escape camera’s eye.
About 915 points have been identified during this project.
In addition to optical fiber cable of 1,000 kilometers, 25 LTE towers would be installed all over the city. KP Police Integrated Command Control and Communication Center C3 would be established at the East Cantt police station.
Large features of the MEGA project included monitoring, integrated readiness.
