The Peshawar Safe City Project has signed a formal agreement with TransPeshawar to connect live camera feeds from Bus Rapid Transit stations directly into the Safe City surveillance system, expanding the provincial capital’s integrated monitoring network and marking the start of formal technical cooperation between the two organisations. The agreement was signed at the Safe City Project headquarters, and cameras installed at BRT stations have now been linked with the Safe City Project, expanding the city’s surveillance network. Officials described the partnership as an important milestone for improving public security, strengthening monitoring, and ensuring faster response to incidents across the city.
The integration builds on the foundation laid when the Peshawar Safe City Project was inaugurated in March 2026 by Chief Minister Muhammad Sohail Afridi after a delay of 18 years from its original conception in 2008. The Rs2.23 billion initiative features 711 AI-powered cameras at 133 locations, and the system operates using artificial intelligence and advanced video analytics, automatically generating alerts for wanted individuals or suspicious vehicles, providing real-time location updates to the nearest police officers. The system also incorporates smart surveillance vehicles, drones, anti-drone systems, and 68 panic buttons placed across the city to support faster emergency response. The system was always intended to be integrated with existing camera networks installed along Bus Rapid Transit corridors, the Red Zone, and other sensitive locations.
The formal agreement with TransPeshawar now delivers on that planned integration, adding the live feeds from BRT stations to the central Command and Control Centre that serves as the operational hub of the Safe City network. The BRT system spans an extensive corridor across Peshawar and its stations represent high-traffic public spaces where the ability to monitor, detect, and respond to security incidents in real time carries significant value for law enforcement and emergency services. The KP Safe City Project includes a central Command and Control Centre established to integrate citywide surveillance, emergency response services, and traffic management on a single platform for real-time monitoring. Adding BRT station cameras to this platform increases the density and geographic spread of the surveillance network across one of the city’s most frequented public transit corridors.
The BRT-Safe City camera integration represents a model for how existing public infrastructure investments in Peshawar can be leveraged to extend the reach of the digital security network without requiring entirely new installations. The broader Safe City expansion is already underway in Dera Ismail Khan, Bannu, and Lakki Marwat, where surveillance networks and command and control systems are being established in stages, with plans also finalised for Karak, Tank, and North Waziristan. As the network expands province-wide, the principle of integrating cameras from existing public infrastructure such as BRT stations, educational institutions, and commercial premises into the Safe City framework will reduce capital requirements while accelerating coverage, making it a replicable approach for the rollout of Safe City capabilities in smaller cities across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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