Regional Police Officer Multan Usman Akram Gondal formally inaugurated the Lodhran Safe City project on May 8, 2026, making Lodhran the latest district in Punjab to come under the province’s expanding digital surveillance and e-challan enforcement network. The project includes the installation of 273 cameras at 38 major locations and intersections across the city, which will be used to monitor criminal activity and issue challans to traffic violators automatically. The launch continues Punjab’s systematic rollout of Safe City infrastructure beyond its major urban centres, bringing the same camera-based surveillance, automated traffic enforcement, and emergency response capabilities that have been deployed in Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad, and Rawalpindi to smaller districts across the province.
Officials informed participants during the inauguration ceremony that Pink Button and Wi-Fi facilities would be introduced at various locations across Lodhran to facilitate residents, particularly women, giving citizens a direct emergency alert mechanism alongside broader public connectivity. The Pink Button feature, which allows women in distress to send an immediate emergency signal to law enforcement, has been deployed in other Safe City rollouts across Punjab as part of a deliberate effort to make the surveillance infrastructure serve public safety beyond conventional crime and traffic enforcement. The addition of public Wi-Fi at key locations further extends the programme’s utility beyond policing into general civic service delivery.
During the briefing, the RPO was informed that the Safe City cameras are equipped with facial recognition technology capable of helping identify criminals, connecting the local installation directly to the provincial law enforcement database infrastructure that allows officers to cross-reference individuals captured on camera against existing records in real time. For traffic enforcement specifically, the cameras feed directly into Punjab’s e-challan system, generating digital traffic violation notices linked to vehicle registration data without requiring an officer to be physically present at the point of violation. Speaking at the event, Gondal said the operationalization of the Lodhran Safe City project would help police monitor criminal activities more effectively, reduce crime, collect evidence from crime scenes, and improve emergency response times across the district. The Lodhran launch is part of a broader provincial push that has seen Punjab accelerate Safe City deployments across multiple districts simultaneously, as the government works toward comprehensive digital surveillance coverage across all of Punjab’s major population centres.
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