New security system for Landhi industrial area

In view of the increasing street-crimes here, country's financial hub, industrialists have introduced a 'model private security system' for Landhi Industrial Area. A centralised security system based on inter-company security methods, intelligence sharing, surveys, patrolling by private security staff and closed co-operation with law enforcement agencies has successfully addressed all security concerns in one of the industrial zones.
This was said by Chairman, Landhi Association of Trade and Industry (Lati), Ziad Bashir in a statement, here on Wednesday. He said that the model security mechanism could be applied in other industrial areas of the city facing security issues despite heavy deployment of Rangers and police.
Through the self financed new security system, Lati has inter-linked all factories and industrial units in the zone while making a centralised office which would be in direct contacts with the security chiefs of all companies for 24 hours. The central office would be informing the law enforcement agencies including rangers and police about any criminal activities immediately thus ensuring timely action against the criminal, he said.
"The association also organises a weekly meeting of all security chiefs in which the progress of the concerned department, the weekly survey reports, data and next line of action are discussed," the chairman said adding that the final reports of the weekly meetings are later shared with the police and rangers in the scheduled monthly meeting with them.
Under the new security strategy, not only the member company's of the association are kept informed about any mishaps and criminal activity in the industrial area but the law enforcers are also helped to control crimes inside and outside the zone. The fresh move has also drastically reduced the criminal activities in the area.
It is worth mentioning here that, earlier, there were plenty of reports about gangs of miscreants engaged in holding up of cars at gun point and snatching mobile phones, wallets, laptops and other valuables from the drivers and passengers mostly the staff of various companies. Besides a number a number of persons were also killed and injured by these criminals in the area.
Ziad also praised the role of Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) and its Chief, Ahmed Chinoy, who recently has successfully freed a fellow industrialist who was kidnapped by criminals for ransom. Though there was a significant control over the criminal activities in the affected area, he said, a closed co-ordination between rangers and police was needed to further improve the security system there.-PR