PESHAWAR:
A fund of Rs288 million has been approved to procure two units of GSM locators along with other necessary equipment to help Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) police crackdown on extortionists and other criminals.
Insiders said the procurement of 300 units of GSM jammers, seven bulletproof rostems (one for each zone), 25 metal detector units, 24 non-metal detector units, 16 portable low frequency jammer units, 10 explosive detector units and 100 computer liability units besides the two units of GSM locators are included in the package.
'These days a mobile phone is the primary tool for criminals like extortionists and kidnappers and it is an uphill task for the police to locate them, unlike the past when landlines were used and tracking them was easy,' shared a police official. He added the decision to buy GSM locators and hire technical staff, along with procuring other necessary equipment, was taken last year, and the government has finally approved the funds for it.
'It will prove to be a real boon, or rather a big leap, for the K-P police, who in the past, had to look towards the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) or Intelligence Bureau (IB),' said the official. With the help of these GSM locators, police will be able to locate a mobile phone with acute accuracy in no time at all, while it took the FIA and IB at least 24 hours to locate a mobile phone, he added.
'These criminals will not be able to change their locations after making calls from their mobile phones and would be tracked within a few minutes which will discourage kidnappers and extortionists,' he stressed, saying the police are eagerly waiting to get their hands on the gadgets.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 23rd, 2014.
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