Karachi: A day conference was held at Sindh Police Museum Garden Police Head Quarters on ‘REFORM THROUGH TECHNOLOGY ORIENTED POLICING (TOP)’, event was collaboration between Falcon-i, Sindh Police and AFIGP.

Kaleem Imam, Secretary General of AFIGP, IP (retd), Ghulam Nabi Memon IGP of Sindh attended as chief guest. Saad Salman CEO Falcon-i presented an industry also present.

Audience wwere introduced to technology intiatives, such as Talash Application by DIGP IT Sindh Police Captain, Pervaiz Ahmed Chandio. Asim Iqbal Shaikh Director of IT CPO Punjab Police talked about initiatives of Punjab Police in field of information technology (IT). An informative talk on cyber threat intelligence was given by Asif Riaz CEO of Arrays Digital. These presentations sparked discussions around focal point of conference how to improve coordination, collaboration and standardisation of police departments and across all spectrums of criminal and national databases using technology.

Khaliq-ur-Rehman Raazi M.D. Head of Computer Science Department (MAJU) identified link between technology and Pakistan’s sociocultural norms. Shafi Zubair Siddique ADG FIA shared experiences of IT solutions that FIA has embraced. Chief Technology Officer Tariq Malik discussed how they had implemented Punjab Safe City Project.

Panelists suggested that committee be established with designated focal person to foster relationships between business and law enforcement organisations to facilitate industry-police collaboration. Deliberations were also made on incubators which can be used to create software, test it and develop real policy solutions with comprehensive vendor lists. These solutions could make use of predictive analysis and generate results that are simple to monitor.

Leading industry experts and eminent individuals from academia in domain of technology, cyber security and surveillance were in attendance.

Published in The Daily National Courier, December, 30 2022

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