Pakistan: Can cameras help solve Karachi's crime problem?

Police in the southern Pakistani metropolis say they're working on building more modern surveillance systems to fight street crime.

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00:33 We are gradually moving towards adopting modern techniques

00:38 and gadgetry in crime fighting.

00:41 Though there is a need to do a lot in this regard,

00:45 but we are moving in that direction.

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00:50 The prosecution side of the police and law enforcers

00:57 are very weak.

00:59 The people who have and had been arrested in crime,

01:03 they are not sentenced by the court of law

01:09 because of poor prosecution.

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01:15 In the month of January this year,

01:19 the mobile snatching was around 2,300 cases in Karachi.

01:26 And in February, it was 1,980 cases.

01:30 In March, it was 1,800 cases.

01:33 In April, it went down to 1,340 cases.

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01:41 It's an expensive project.

01:46 It needs a lot of financial resources.

01:49 And the feasibilities were made a couple of years back.

01:53 And probably the decision makers at the top level

01:58 were late in taking the appropriate decision.

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