GCU students briefed on safe cities project

LAHORE: Punjab Safe Cities Authority is keen to absorb able youths in its workforce. It is a wonderful workplace and learning environment for young graduates and professionals. These thoughts were expressed by the Operations Commander, Punjab Police Integrated Command Control and Communication Center (PPIC3) Lahore while briefing the delegation of Government College University Lahore at Punjab Safe Cities Authority Headquarters, Qurban Lines. The GCU delegation was comprised of 14 students and their faculty members who were working on establishment of an internal Forensic Science Corner within the GCU. This study tour was arranged by both institutions to help students enrolled in the relevant disciplines get first hand insight of authority's premier project PPIC3 that executed advanced investigative methods and forensic techniques. The students were taken to various arms and functions of the project dealing in 15 Operations, Police Dispatch Unit, Video Control Unit, Media Monitoring Unit and the PSCA insignia Cam-surveillance Operations Management Center. The Ops Commander briefed the delegation with audio visual presentations on various objectives as well. PSCA is keen to absorb able youths in its workforce, he added. The students felt overwhelmed by the level of excellence carried out in an intricate ICT project of its kind in Pakistan. The delegation was later presented with souvenir shields.

Expat: An overseas Pakistani woman has got back Rs 3.5 million from a housing society with the assistance of Overseas Pakistanis Commission (OPC), Punjab.

OPC Commissioner Afzaal Bhatti said the woman, Sarfraz Fatima, settled in New York, the US, lodged a complaint that she bought three plots in a housing society in Sargodha in 2005, but she was yet to get the possession of the plots. An OPC team contacted the Cooperative Department and the administration of the housing society, as a result, Rs 3.5 million were paid to the expatriate woman by the housing society as compensation.

Accidents: At least 804 road accidents were reported to the Provincial Monitoring Cell of the Punjab Emergency Service/Rescue 1122 from all districts of Punjab during the last 24 hours.

Nine people were killed and 519 badly injured in the accidents. The injured were removed to hospitals. However, some 397 victims, who sustained minor injuries, were given first aid by the emergency medical teams.