ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi, accompanied by Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry, on Friday visited the Islamabad Safe City Headquarters and chaired a special meeting to review progress on the expansion project.
Officials briefed the meeting that overall work on the expansion has reached 85 per cent completion. Installation of the new surveillance cameras stands at the same level, while 415 kilometres of optical fibre cable have been laid across the capital. Work on the data centre, cyber architecture and cybersecurity infrastructure is around 80 per cent complete.
Naqvi expressed satisfaction at the pace of progress but directed officials to finish the remaining tasks by September 30. He said the government’s aim is to turn the Islamabad Safe City into a modern, smart and world-class system matching those in developed countries.
The technologically upgraded network, he noted, would strengthen public safety through better surveillance, continuous monitoring and quicker emergency response. It would also improve the efficiency of law-enforcement agencies and provide greater security to residents of the federal capital.
The interior minister assigned a three-month deadline for completion of the state-of-the-art Fusion Centre, calling it a key part of the upgraded system. He further instructed the relevant authorities to finalise the Safe City Bill at the earliest and place it before the National Assembly so that the project has a proper legal framework for its long-term functioning and further expansion.
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Federal Secretary for Interior, Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency, senior Safe City officials and other officers attended the meeting and briefed the minister on the current status and future roadmap of the project.
The expansion forms part of ongoing efforts to broaden coverage beyond the original Safe City network, which had left large parts of the capital without continuous monitoring. Earlier phases had focused on critical areas, entry and exit points and major public spaces; the current work seeks to close remaining gaps through additional high-resolution cameras, stronger fibre-optic links and integrated command facilities.
