The delegation of Peshawar Safe City project headed by the Project Director visited the headquarters of PSCA, Lahore on 11th February 2019 to discuss the plans of the project.
After the decision of the government to expand the Safe City project to other large cities of the country, the Project Director of Peshawar Safe City project came to PSCA Lahore along with his team to formulate a plan regarding the project. On this occasion, the Project Director DIG Saleem Marwat was accompanied by senior officers of the P&D department and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police. A detailed briefing regarding the operational mechanism was given to the entire team by the Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) Chief Operating Officer (COO) Akbar Nasir Khan and Chief Administration Officer Muhammad Kamran Khan.
The delegation visited the operations and monitoring centre during their visit where they were briefed about the daily working procedures. Moreover, the team also visited the emergency control and dispatch control centre. Detailed information was provided to the visiting team regarding the advanced traffic management and electronic challan system. The Project Director of Peshawar safe city project was of the view that the visit to PSCA has provided us with a deep insight into the project and will be helpful in the implementation of the new system in the provincial capital of KPK.
It is to be noted here that Punjab Safe Cities Authority (PSCA) has covered all their bases regarding the safety and security of Lahore with its advanced cameras working on almost every junction of the city. Moreover, the electronic challan system has resulted in bringing awareness among the citizens to follow traffic rules regardless of the fact that any warden is watching them violate the law. There has been a significant decrease in the violations of traffic laws on the roads of the provincial capital owing to this camera-based challan system. The authority is aiming to improve the system even further to ensure the safety and security of the residents of Lahore with no room of error.
After a huge operational success of PSCA, other cities of the country are also aimed to be made safer with this particular safe city project. The team for the Peshawar Safe City project has already been formulated which will start working with the assistance of PSCA. The real-time monitoring system of this project has made it convenient for the authorities to keep an eye on any sort of criminal activities or security issues across the city.
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