CRDB
Bank Managing Director, Dr Charles Kimei, and Deputy MD, Ms Esther
Kitoka (left) share a light moment with the Inspector General of Police
(IGP) Ernest Mangu (centre), CEO of Presidential Delivery Bureau, Mr
Omari Issa (second right) and Dar es Salaam Special Zones Commander
Simon Siro during a handover of a dummy cheque of 255m/- to support
transfomation programme of the police force in the city on Tuesday.
(Photo by Robert Okanda)
CRDB Bank has contributed 255m/- toward police transformation programme that seeks to, among other things, bring about rapid deployment of forces to crime scenes.
The money, donated as part of activities
to mark 20 years of growth of the bank, will be used to build a
state-of-the-art police call centre at the Central Police Station with
the capacity of receiving 120 calls at one given time.
The centre will have the ability to
identify the call location and locating the nearest patrol car using GPS
track system and directed it to the crime scene. “This will increase
rapidness on deploying our forces to a crime scene thus increase
responding to the call,” Inspector General of Police Ernest Mangu said
when receiving the contribution on Tuesday.
The IGP said the call centre will
continue to receive call from the entire country but the modernisation
starts with Dar es Salaam —specifically Kinondoni Police region. Once in
full gear the call centre will be supported with mobile police units to
be stationed in a radius of 3.0 kilometres backed by 5 patrol cars and
126 motorcycles thus reaching a crime scene inside 10 minutes.
“The construction of the call centre
will be completed at end of June and operations will begin in July,” IGP
Mangu said. The IGP said between July and December a transformation
pilot project will be implemented in Kinondoni before being deployed
countrywide.
“We want to change the long response
time to crime scene... wananchi know police will delay...,” noting
however they had become more efficient after managing to cut delay time
thanks to deployment of police vehicles and motorcycles.
He said improvement in efficiency was
causing another problem as some people falsely accuse them of conspiring
with bandits when they manage to reach at a crime scene in time. “But
the trouble is when we respond promptly people say we are part of the
crime-ring,” IGP said.
CRDB Managing Director Dr Charles Kimei
said they rapidly respond back to the police request since the banking
sector depends on security, peace and tranquillity of the nation.
“To safeguard depositors’ money is of
paramount importance because, if there is no peace, people will not put
their money in banks,” Dr Kimei said.
He said physical security that is
implemented by police increases customers’ confidence that their money
are safe at the banks. “In the recent days police have been doing a
great job on combating banks related crime, mainly using motorcycles.
The situation is better now,” Dr Kimei
noted. President’s Delivery Bureau Chief Executive Officer Omari Issa
said Kinondoni Police region was picked as it leads in the crime rate in
the country.
“Kinondoni has the highest crime rate,
we thought it’s better to start with it and later go in a big scale —
countrywide,” Mr Issa said.
The CEO said before reaching the
implementation stage they sat with all stakeholders to first identify
the challenges police are facing on responding to crime scene and later
made study tours to learn how others are doing.
“We are even planning to have a Police
Open Day to let people see police working and living condition,” Mr Issa
said. The Police Transformation exercise begins mid-year with the call
centre that will be manned by 20 staff but has the capacity of receiving
120 calls at any given time. Each call will not ring more than five
times before being picked up.
The transformation will include cutting
paper work and place with computerised system — from receiving
statements to filing cases to investigation limited to two months in the
next three years.
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