Staff Reporter
Sindh Police chief Mushtaq Ahmed Mehar formally launched Indigenously State – of – the – Art Zainab Alert Mobile App at CPO in a simple ceremony on Tuesday. High officials from all concerned departments, members of Civil Society, Officers /Staff of Sindh Police and guests from CPLC along with volunteers were present at the occasion. IGP Mehar highlighted the importance and need of such Mobile App to save the lives of our future generations through the use of current Information Communication Technology (ICT) to address our existing social issues by ourselves. He commented the efforts put in by the project team members to make this excellent app, friendly user & without any use of public money. He hoped that soon more such apps will be added in Zainab Alert System, to address other problems like checking of vehicle on the go and use of ICT to identify criminals, through facial recognition, artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning features. Mehar mentioned that our young engineer’s effort be recognized and letter of appreciation will be given to project members and the police Headquarters will facilitate them to produce more results. While addressing the gathering CPLC Chief mentioned about the joint venture between the Police, CPLC and volunteers from M/s Invent Lab have taken an initiative and joined the CPLC’s R & D team to make Zainab Alert Mobile app indigenously for reporting missing and found Children. He said that app has thoroughly been tested for last many months at CPO & CPLC by a dedicated team of experts to ensure that there is no bug in its operations of alert system prior it’s formal launching. He also reported that Zainab Alert is par with the similar system being used by 1st world nations in the world. In addition, Zainab Alert is the starting point of series of apps that we will also launch one by one soon. Hitherto, we are focusing on the speedy reporting of missing and unidentified (found) children. In addition work on Android, IOS apps and Web is underway. He also mentioned about recently Zainab Alert Bill 2020 has also been passed by senate.
