Sindh Interior Department released more than Rs3 billion for the Safe City project for metropolitan Karachi to counter the deteriorating law and order situation and to bring peace to the port city.

Sindh Interior Minister Zia Linjar said in his statement that the first phase of the Safe City project has been directed to be completed within twelve months.

He said that no government wants crime incidents to happen, the law and order situation is gradually improving.

“The situation is not completely better, but the situation is improving,” the minister commented on the state of street crimes and mobile snatching in the port city.

“I am satisfied with the performance of the police,” he said.

Karachi Smart Safe City Project

In Mary this year, Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah approved signing an agreement of Rs5.5 billion between the Sindh Police and National Radio & Telecommunication Corporation (NRTC) to launch the first phase of the Smart Safe City project in the red zone.

Initially, high-security red zones and airport corridors were marked as its initial points wherein 1,300 CCTV cameras with facial and automatic vehicle number plate recognition systems would be installed.

It is pertinent to note that it took the Sindh government almost eight years to decide this effect for the project which was envisaged and boringly launched in 2016.