Altaf Shakoor, Chairman of the Pasban Democratic Party (PDP), says that the police force in Karachi is having difficulty dealing with the rising crime rate in the city because they are still using old teaching methods. In a statement released on Sunday, Shakoor said that the way police are trained in Karachi right now is not good enough to give officers the skills they need to fight modern urban crime successfully.
In his speech, Shakoor said police training schools in Karachi, like many others, still use old methods. It was clear to him that modern tools and methods, like data analysis, surveillance cams, and artificial intelligence, are not taught in schools. He says that this gap makes the police force unprepared and unable to handle the complicated nature of urban crime.
He said that ideas about what causes crime in cities, like the subculture of violence and the subculture of poverty, apply to the crime scene in Karachi. These ideas say that some groups have beliefs and standards that make them more likely to commit crimes. But Shakoor said that local training schools were wrong for not including these things in their courses.
Shakoor suggested that China, which he said had one of the best police forces in the world, provide modernization help for Karachi’s police training schools. He said that the training materials, tools, and equipment should be updated to include new technologies like AI and recording and analyzing data.
The head of the PDP also said that the widespread cheating in the police force was wrong and that it was getting in the way of efforts to modernize and improve the force. He said that police work is less effective when they are crooked and that a clean, modern police force is needed for good urban police work. To fix this, he suggested hiring police officers through the Public Service Commission to make sure the staff was well-educated and qualified.
Shakoor also pushed for sending some police officers to China to get more advanced training. The goal was to train a group of master trainers in current methods for city policing. He also said that current officers should be retrained and that those who didn’t meet modern standards should be fired or given the chance to leave early.
Aside from these steps, Shakoor also stressed the need for tighter enforcement of public order. He said it was wrong that people were allowed to block roads during religious and cultural events and called for a zero-tolerance strategy to keep the peace.
In the end, he asked the government to create a special police department for Karachi to deal with the city’s unique problems and make sure that the law was followed properly.
Shakoor’s comments show that he is becoming more and more worried about the need to change police strategies to keep up with current problems and keep Karachi’s people safe.