Inspector General of Police (IGP) Islamabad Dr. Akbar Nasir Khan said that cameras installed in commercial areas and markets would be connected with the Safe City Project to ensure high vigilance and improved security in the city. He said this while addressing the business community during a visit to Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

Dr. Akbar Nasir Khan said that all markets and commercial areas should try to install security cameras that would be connected with the safe city project to ensure better monitoring of the business areas. He said that the installation of new cameras would increase the coverage of key locations and help improve law and order situation in the city. He said that intolerance in society is one of the reasons for increasing crimes and stressed that better education of society is needed to improve tolerance that would bring down the crimes. Later on, he along with President ICCI visited F-10 Markaz to inaugurate the installation of cameras in the market. He appreciated TWA F-10 Markaz for installing cameras on a self-finance basis.

Ahsan Zafar Bakhtawari, President, Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry said that along with installation of cameras, police patrolling in markets and industrial areas should be increased and added that ICCI is ready to donate motorbikes to police for this purpose. During a visit to F-10 Markaz, he lauded the efforts of Traders Welfare Association, F-10 Markaz, Islamabad for installing cameras in the market with their own resources and said that other markets and commercial areas should follow this good precedent to improve security. He said that installation of cameras would help curb the incidents of thefts, mobile snatching and other crimes in business areas and the city. He assured that ICCI would fully cooperate with Islamabad Police to make the Capital a crime free city.

Ahmed Khan President Traders Welfare Association F-10 Markaz and Tahir Abbasi Group Leader said that the cameras in the market have been installed at a cost of Rs.5 million by pooling resources from the traders.

Azhar ul Islam Zafar Vice President ICCI, Zafar Bakhtawari, Muhammad Ejaz Abbasi, Ameer Hamza, Ashfaq Hussain Chatha, Muhammad Yahya, Khalid Chaudhry, Nasira Ali and others also spoke at the occasion and highlighted various police related issues of their markets that needed the close attention of IGP for redress.