FAISALABAD, Dec 25: Dozens of video cameras have been installed at sensitive areas like religious and busy places in the city to keep an eye on unscrupulous elements.
This was claimed by DPO Muhammad Amin Wains while talking to reporters here on Friday.
The DPO said the police with the financial assistance of the Citizen Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) had installed 18 closed-circuit cameras in different mosques and Imambargahs, seven outside banks, two in parking stands and seven in D-Ground commercial area.
In addition, he said the four costly and hi-tech cameras had also been installed at the Clock Tower Intersection and Peoples Colony commercial centres.
Similarly, he said the two cameras had been installed at the police check posts on Pul Dengro and Samundri Road to monitor the entry and exit of vehicles.
The DPO said that after the installation of a number of closed-circuit cameras in the city and its adjoining areas, a reasonable decrease had been witnessed in the crime rate.
He said that over two dozen sites in the city had also been notified by the police and CPLE to install cameras.
THREATENS: The Punjab Oil Tankers Owners Association has threatened to observe strike on Jan 3 if the government fail to accept their demand of increase in fares and provision of basic facilities to tanker drivers and owners.
Talking to reporters here on Saturday, association president Sharafat Ali Khan Khatak said that repeated requests had been made to oil companies for the provision of basic facilities to drivers and owners of oil tankers, but to no avail.
He said the snatching of vehicles and looting of valuables from the drivers in the province had become a normal practice but the authorities concerned were playing the role of a silent spectator.
In view of the present hike in the POL prices, the owners of oil tankers had left with no option but to enhance the fare, he added.
ESCAPE: Two murder convicts escaped from the central jail here on Saturday by scaling its wall.
Reports said Muhammad Ashfaq of Toba Tek Singh and Sabir Hussain of Chiniot were undergoing life imprisonment at the central jail in separate cases. Both escaped in connivance with the jail staff.
The IG (prisons) ordered a probe and deputed DIG Nasir Warraich as inquiry officer.
Meanwhile, the Saddar police have registered a case against the convicts and formed a team for their arrest.
TWO KILLED: Two Christian boys were killed in a road accident near Jhang Road by-pass here on Saturday.
Reports said Babar Masih and Tariq Masih were going to see their relatives on the eve of Christmas when a passenger bus hit their two-wheeler. Both the boys sustained serious head injuries and died on the spot.
A case has been registered against the bus driver.
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