Peshawar:
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to start work on the Peshawar Safe City project.
According to official sources on Sunday, the project will officially start after Eid, with 700 cameras installed in 100 key locations across the city. In the second phase, the SAFE city project will extend in the southern districts, notably Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan, where preliminary work has already been completed.
The project will become operational in the coming days, improving security and surveillance in the region.
Background
In January 2023, KP police and a private consultant company signed a contract for the Peshawar Safe City project which was to be completed in five months.
KP Inspector General of Police Moazzam Jah Ansari, project manager Safe City Peshawar Waqar Ahmad, the project consultant team and other high-ups attended the ceremony.
The director of the Waqar Ahmad project and the CEO Carbonate PVT Jawad Ayub Baig signed the agreement.
It can be recalled that the SAFE PESHAWAR city project aims to make Peshawar urban areas safely thanks to technology -oriented effects, including installation of video surveillance cameras.
The main objective of the project is to fight terrorism and other crimes, in particular street crimes, car lifting and motorcycles thanks to the best use of the latest gadgets.
With the installation of high resolution video surveillance cameras, each point will be monitoring of the police and it will not be possible for the right to escape the eye of the camera.
About 915 points were identified as part of this project.
In addition to the optical fiber cable for 1,000 kilometers, 25 LTE laps would be installed in the city. The integrated KP police control and communication center would be established in the East Cantt police station.
The protruding characteristics of the mega project included monitoring, an integrated emergency response.
