LAHORE - Punjab police has decided to purchase 70 palm scanners and install one mega matcher software for collecting the evidences, finger prints, sketches from the crime scene which will have the capacity to save at least two million data and can match the evidences within 10 seconds.
Besides, a decision to establish CRO desks in all central jails of Punjab where these palm scanners will be provided to save the criminal’s record.
These decisions were made in a meeting by Inspector General of Police Punjab, Mushtaq Ahmad Sukhera, held at Central Police Office, Lahore. Additional IGP Operations/Investigation Punjab, Capt (R) Arif Nawaz, DIG IT, Shahid Hanif, DIG Operations Punjab, Amir Zulfiqar, DIG Operations Lahore, Dr Haider Ashraf, AIG Development, Kamran Khan, AIG Logistics, Humayun Bashir Tarar, AIG Finance, Hussain Habib Imtiaz, AIG Operations, Ahsan Younas, AIG Complaints, Syed Khurram Ali, AIG Monitoring, Waqas-ul-Hassan, SSP CRO Lahore, Umer Salamat, Director Computer Bureau, Shahin Khalid and other senior police officers of CPO also attended the meeting.
On this occasion, SSP CRO, Umer Salamat told the IGP that 500,000 crime data across the province had been computerised among these the process of scanning of 350,000 cards had also been completed so far. He also told that because of this system only during last four months, Punjab investigation department has traced 12 most important hardened criminal cases.
The PPO said that because of this mega matcher system Punjab police department would become the biggest criminal data bank of the country and it would be the first system through which the sketches of the criminals, data analysis and predictive intelligence system would be improved and would also be helpful for state-of-the-art investigation system which was also being used across the world. Through this system the Punjab police will start paperless policing by abolishing the 1861 traditional investigation system. The meeting also decided to set up a monitoring room which would be headed by AIG rank officer and would be responsible for consecutive monitoring of all front desks, HRMIS, Transfer/Posting and CRO system.
(The News)
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