Curb mobile snatching: Selling your phone? Fill adult this CPLC form first
KARACHI: As many as 34,137 mobile phones were stolen or snatched in Karachi final year, according to a Citizens-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC). In an try to diminish a threat of snatchings and thefts, a CPLC, in partnership with a military and a mobile markets’ associations, has come adult with a strategy.
The regulation is really simple: any shopkeeper who sells used mobile phones will have to fill a pro forma released by a CPLC before shopping used phones from sellers. The pro forma requires finish sum of a seller, including his name, father’s name, address, CNIC series and mobile phones’ International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number.
“Before shopping a used mobile phone from a customer, we [shopkeeper] contingency determine it from a CPLC helpline 1102 or call 35682222 to determine a phone’s standing – snatched, stolen or cleared,” reads a duplicate of a CPLC pro forma performed by The Express Tribune. “It is also mandatory for all shopkeepers to get a photocopy of a customer’s CNIC before shopping a used mobile phone.”
It serve reads that a shopkeeper will be obliged if he does not follow a customary handling procession (SOP) and a phone is found to be stolen or snatched, adding that a shopkeeper will have to face Section 411 of a Pakistan Penal Code. He will also have to compensate a tangible cost of a phone to buyers if he sells any snatched or stolen mobile phone to them.
It is also required to get a hit series of a seller before shopping any used mobile phone from him. Also, a shopkeeper is obliged to seize any mobile phone and surprise a CPLC, Special Investigation Unit of a Karachi military and a market’s organisation if it is found to have a rapist record in a CPLC database. The shopkeeper will have to say a record of all sole and purchased mobile phones.
“It is a partial of a peak cabinet meeting’s decisions to control travel crimes, quite a snatching and burglary of mobile phones,” CPLC arch Zubair Habib told The Express Tribune. “By doing this, we would be means to control a sale and squeeze of snatched or stolen mobile phones. We will have to control such mobile phones’ sale and squeeze from Karachi to any other partial of a nation since such phones are customarily sole and purchased from Karachi.”
CPLC officials will also sojourn in hold with a markets’ associations and shopkeepers for check and balance, pronounced Habib. “We are not observant that by doing this we will be means to discharge a sale and squeeze of snatched and/or stolen mobile phones completely, though we will be means to control it as most as possible,” he said. “It will really build vigour on a shopkeepers.”
There are over 100 tiny and large mobile markets in a city with scarcely 15,000 shops where thousands of used mobile phones are sole and purchased on a daily basis. The CPLC and a military have taken a mobile markets’ associations on house in a decision. “We are with a CPLC and military in their efforts to control such rapist activities as no one in Karachi is protected from such crimes,” pronounced a boss of Karachi Electronics Dealers Associations, Muhammad Rizwan. “It is also a shortcoming to force a shopkeepers to follow a SOP.” He combined that a markets’ associations will also send their group with used mobile phones to check if a shopkeepers follow a SOP or not.
According to CPLC data, 21,198 mobile phones were snatched while 20,442 were stolen in 2015. In 2016, a sum of 34,137 mobile phones were possibly snatched or stolen opposite a city. “Until and unless a direct of such mobile phones does not end, this business will continue,” pronounced District South SSP Saqib Ismail Memon. “By interlude a demand, we would be means to stop a supply of such mobile phones.”
Monthly report
Meanwhile, CPLC has also released their monthly news on travel crime in Karachi. According to a CPLC report, a adults of Karachi have been deprived of 1,181 mobile phones in snatching, 1,441 mobile phones in theft, 20 4 wheelers in snatching, 123 4 wheelers if burglary and 1,727 two-wheelers in theft. One box of kidnapping, 7 cases of extortion, 31 killings and one box of bank spoliation were also reported.
Published in The Express Tribune, Feb 2nd, 2017.
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