IGP tells city police to revise mode of snap checking

Sindh’s police chief IGP AD Khowaja directed the Karachi police on Thursday to revise their mode of snap checking across the city.

Chairing a meeting to review security arrangements for Yaum-e-Ali (RA) and the last 10 days of Ramazan, Khowaja also ordered that snap checking and raking must be carried out in close coordination with the Sindh Rangers.

He said the importance of the religious days as well as the general situation of the city warranted absolute vigilance to deny all opportunities to unscrupulous elements who might seek to take advantage of any possible slackness.

He sought efficiency in the system of collecting intelligence, particularly in sensitive areas, and urged his subordinates to realise their responsibilities and ensure that security arrangements were not compromised in any manner across the metropolis.

The IGP said that besides strict vigilance along the procession routes and in the vicinity of mosques, imambargahs and other spaces dedicated for prayers, watchfulness was a must for the people visiting shopping centres in late hours as well.

Seeking proper deployment of police personnel at all the public places across the city, he ordered setting up makeshift reporting centres in the shopping areas. He also ordered stringent measures to counter street crimes, which usually increase before Eid.

The meeting was also attended by Karachi police chief Addl IGP Mushtaq Mehar, Special Branch Addl IGP Dr Waliullah Dul, DIGs of the city police’s East, West and South zones, and SSPs of all the districts of the metropolis.