ISLAMABAD: Last month, the Islamabad police went digital. Not a Eureka moment but their creating a database of criminals, suspects and stolen vehicles does count as a first step towards fighting urban crime using modern technology.
A brainchild of two Superintendents of Police, retired army captains Mohammad Ilyas and Mustansar Feroz, the project has already started paying dividends.
Police have arrested four proclaimed offenders since the project went into operation three weeks ago.
Their criminal record in the database gave them up to the police at the city checkpoints.
At the same time, the digital checking system has brought relief to the innocent suspects.
Superintendents of Police Ilyas and Feroz took the initiative to collect and digitise the record of all sorts of criminals, proclaimed offenders, court absconders, military deserters, convicted persons and the accused facing trial, available with the capital police.
They also fed the chassis number and other particulars of vehicles registered with the Islamabad Excise and Taxation Office, or reported stolen, into the database.
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