Having recognised that the “Safe City” project has yielded results in fighting crime, President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced plans to expand the surveillance programme countrywide.
“…Nationally we are going to have a Safe Country programme. We are going to have the entire country connected on the CCTV cameras so that all of the country will be [under] the watch by the relevant authorities so that we can be proactive in crime fighting,” Ali said yesterday during an address to the nation.
Ali, who is also Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, also said that government will be investing in intelligence gathering by the law enforcement officials. “…You will see more crime being caught even before they were committed or cracked before they were committed because of the proactive work and the intelligence gathering,” Ali noted.