The city is in turmoil

Safe city project built at a cost of four crore rupees to make Nawabshah city free from crime, criminals are taking advantage of the malfunctioning of seventy cameras out of two hundred. The city is in the grip of unrest and armed bikers are engaged in looting in different parts of the city, while the citizens are in full protest. According to SSP Ameer Saud Magsi, to make the city safe, MPA Ali Hasan Zardari installed two hundred state-of-the-art cameras in the city under the Safe City project at a cost of four crore rupees and two thousand cameras were installed in its system. The capacity was kept.

In this regard, he said that this system is more advanced than the political project implemented in Islamabad and Lahore and its efficiency was evident in that it was possible to access the suspects of the incidents in the city within a few hours. The effectiveness of the camera was also such that due to the lack of police personnel and the lack of police deployment everywhere, these cameras were keeping an eye on everything and the criminal elements were also not far from their eyes. However, according to the SSP, since the project was undertaken individually and privately, this very useful and modern system deteriorated within a short period of time due to lack of funds for its maintenance.

In this regard, SSP Amir Saud Magsi said that the air-conditioning system of the control room could not work due to the lack of electricity for hours and due to which there was a fault in the main server and seventy out of two hundred cameras in the city were damaged. went, which was taken advantage of by the criminal elements and ignited unrest in the city. The SSP said that the criminal elements from other parts of the province have committed successive incidents in the city with the help of local facilitators and deprived the citizens of their hard earned money, while also feeling insecure. intensified.

The SSP, however, lamented that city traders, who spend huge sums of money to hire personal guards, are reluctant to install additional cameras around their houses and shops at the repeated request of the administration, unfortunately. Due to a technical glitch in the Safe City project, this state-of-the-art system, which was installed to keep an eye on criminal elements, could not function for a while. However, Amir Saud Magsi SSP said that with the cooperation of Deputy Commissioner Shahryar Gul Memon, the work has been started to remove the defects of the Safe City system and make it effective and to keep an eye on the criminal elements through it.

On the other hand, unrest and looting in the city have disturbed the sleep of businessmen, many businessmen who were depositing and bringing money to the bank were robbed by armed men, due to which the feeling of insecurity among the citizens is becoming intense and bad. Aggrieved traders hit the streets yesterday, a rally was taken out from Skarund Road to Press Club, led by Didar Rand Shakeel Rajput and Abdul Hameed Sheikh, a large number of medical store owners and working employees participated in the rally. . The participants of the rally were chanting slogans of Zardari Tereshahrmein Andher hai Andher hai, stop stealing, protect the traders, protect the citizens.

Addressing a rally at the Press Club, President of Chemist and Druggist Association Didar Rand Shakeel Rajput and Abdul Hameed Sheikh said that the city has been handed over to thieves and robbers. Incidents are happening daily. Despite the Safe City project, the incidents in the city are proof that some of the black sheep in the police department have become facilitators of thieves and robbers. Police officers recruited in the police department should be re-screened.

Because there are reports of alleged involvement of police officials in some incidents. He said that lakhs of rupees were looted from a drug agency on Dhamrah road in the past days, while motorcycles parked in front of shops in the city, including medical stores, are being stolen.

He said that 15-year-old Ramzan Lashari, a laborer in the vegetable market, who was playing with his mobile phone outside the house, was shot dead by armed men in the chest for not giving him the mobile phone. The police have also failed to arrest their killers. Ramzan Lashari had bought a mobile worth 15 thousand rupees by doing labour, which caused his death. He said that apart from this, many incidents have taken place in the city but the police have failed to trace it, while dozens of motorcycles have been snatched and stolen.

When contacted in this regard, SSP Amir Saud Magsi said that any incident is a question mark on the performance of the police. However, he said that after the incidents, disciplinary action has been taken against the police officers and officials. The SHOs of all police stations in the city were changed, while several police officers were reduced in grade and suspended for two years, while dozens of officials were transferred out of the district.