KARACHI: Police Record and Office Management Information System (PROMIS) is ready to launce after adopting some minor logistics requirements and maintenance of equipments, already installed at sites.

This was informed at a meeting presided by Inspector General of Police Sindh, Wajid Ali held at Central Police Office, Karachi Director, Information Technology, Sindh Police, Tabassum Abid during her presentation disclosed that the Main Data Centre was connected with 196 sites including Police Stations and commanding offices throughout the province. According to statistics, 125 sites have been designated in Karachi, 24 in Hyderabad, seven in Mirpurkhas, 11 in Sukkur, 11 in Larkana and one each in all 18 districts.

She revealed that at first phase of its operation, PROMIS would be able to feed information of FIRs and Daily Station Diary (DSD), assignment of investigation and progress in a central database. She added, “Criminal record with pictures and fingerprints would be included in second step”. She stated that the system was linked with Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) headquarter and in addition the system has the capability to link with NADRA, and NARA. “After the successful launch of the project, all FIRs would be computer generated in English, Urdu & Sindh languages. System is designed to compile data of various police stations in a central database at IG Office, she emphasized.

IG Sindh issued directive to DIGP/East to co-ordinate the start of operation at 125 designated sites in Karachi. He further issued directive to DIGP/Administration, Karachi to identify and enlist computer literate police personnel for initiating the project at an accelerated pace. Wajid Ali Khan also constituted a Steering Committee comprising of DIGP/Administration, DIGP/DG Finance, Director Information Technology and AIGP/Administration to finalize the matter for an early successful launching of project.