PSCA issues law & order stats, police performance review

LAHORE: Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) has issued law and order statistics along with Punjab Police Integrated Command, Control and Communication Center’s (PPIC3) performance review for October 2018.

Authority’s Operations Monitoring Center secured more than 25,980 observations that warranted FIRs in 15 cases by proactive policing and interception of more than 103 suspicious persons by PRU and Dolphin Squad and a thorough probing of 5,032 suspicious vehicles.

A total of 4,384 vehicles and motor bikes were spotted and intercepted for having no or non-standard number plates and action was taken duly by the ground units thereof. The OMC employs state of the art CCTV Surveillance Operations through the geo-strategic grid of cameras within the metropolis. More than 83 rallies and protests were monitored and security measures were ensured.

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The 15 Emergency Helpline received 337,118 calls, out of which, 236,812 calls were considered hoaxes and

about 39,718 calls had genuine concerns, the Dispatch Control Center (DCC) generated cases for further action. 29,278 of the calls of them sought for information, consultancy, traffic management or CTP help.

The Media Monitoring Center continued its campaign regarding road safety, E-Challaning and efficient use of 15 emergency helpline on official twitter account PSCA safe cities and official Facebook account Punjab safe cities.

PPIC3 center served Electronic Data Evidence Acquisition requests initiated by Punjab Police and other Law Enforcement Agencies by releasing data pertaining to more than 217 heinous crime cases in addition to showing playback footage to Investigation Officers in 589 instances.

The PSCA extended its services in 1,455 cases pertaining to Rescue and 2,211 cases pertaining to traffic queries and emergency calls. The PSCA Public Safety app also set its mark high this month thereby contributing to the recovery of eight missing persons, one car, 129 motor bikes and four auto-rickshaws.