To test in the street two high-tech Emergency Response Vehicles equipped with super modern camera systems, the Karachi Safe City Project has begun the trial operations. These vehicles have six modern cameras designed to ensure suspicious vehicle identification registration numbers and faces of possibly suspicious persons.
Every vehicle is equipped with seven high-resolution, high-megapixel cameras of the order of twelve. Six of these are meant to identify number plates belonging to doubtfully appearing vehicles or even countenance of people’s likenesses. Another camera on the roof has full rotation: it is able to do a complete revolution, facing downwards, sideways, and horizontally.
Currently stationed in the high-security Defence area, each vehicle carries a commander and three officers. The commander is equipped with a tablet linked to the cameras to allow live transmission of data to the central command and control center.
“Out of a total of 23 such vehicles for the Safe City Project, the cars would be deployed around the city, along with important highways,” Shahbaz Mughal, head of the Safe City operations, said. “And these cameras are night-vision-enabled, making them highly accurate even in low light.”
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Depending on inputs from NADRA and the Excise Department of Pakistan, through the Safe City Project, a facility is available where a police station receives real-time alert as soon as a vehicle displays a suspicious or fake number plate or as soon as an individual identified is classified to have a questionable identity.
Apart from these features, the Emergency Response Vehicles are pre-equipped with internet and wireless communication systems for easy transmission of information. In cases where the primary mode of communicating via the internet fails, communication will still be possible with wireless channels connecting police stations.
Mughal further insists that these vehicles will be released for use on a need basis rather than being physically stationed at fixed points for maximum coverage.
Besides the mobile units, the Safe City Project will install a total of 1,300 advanced cameras across the city. Currently, 100 cameras are functional, and 300 poles are scheduled for installation. Out of those 300 poles, over 15 have already been installed in various locations to enhance urban surveillance and overall securing.