600 Policemen To Patrol In Evening To Curb Street Crime

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 12th Jun, 2017 ) : Islamabad Police have chalked out a new plan to overcome street crime and divided the city into various beats to be patrolled by 600 policemen.

As per plan, the police source said the city has been divided into sub-sectors and a police official of ASI rank along with one policeman and one FC personnel would be assigned on duty in sub-sector.

Their duty timings will start from 5:30 pm and to continue 11:00 pm and a total of 600 police officials along with FC and policemen would perform their patrolling duties. All relevant SDPOs and SHOs would conduct checking of duties of police officials and to brief them about effective policing measures.

The source said several steps have been taken earlier to control crime in the city which included creation of halting points, constitution of Muhafiz squads and deployment of policemen at markets.

He said these measures would help to overcome street crime, motorbike and car snatching, purse snatching and other criminal activities. He said relevant officials and patrolling teams would have to be answerable in case of any incident in their areas.