In Pakistan, the police of Sindh province are purchasing drones to monitor and fight bandits, but the question is why the police are thinking of fighting bandits from the air instead of on the ground, and are these drones in the jungles of Kacha? Can be effective?

According to a letter from the Sindh Police, they have contacted Pakistan’s arms manufacturer Pakistan Ordnance Factory for the purchase of 40 Cerulean Drones Matrix 300 Night Vision and 30 Ababil 5 drones.

Speaking to the BBC, SSP Ghotki Tanveer Taniv confirmed that his department is making the purchase and that the trial flight of these drones has also been completed in his district.

Why was the decision made to use drones?

Last month, five officials, including a DSP and two SHOs, were killed in a dacoit attack in Rawanti’s Kacha area of Ghotki, while earlier in Kashmore, Shikarpur, 20 people were killed in similar dacoity attacks in the last two years. A police officer has been killed.

According to SSP Tanveer Tanyu, after the attack in Ghotki, a high-level meeting and consultation under the leadership of Chief Minister Sindh and IG Police, it has been decided to bring innovation in the traditional way of operations against dacoits and their surveillance.

He said that there are islands formed in Kache, besides there are water ponds and lakes and this geographical situation of the area favors bandits. For this reason, in the recent past, most of the operations have witnessed the police and have faced failure. There are lakhs of acres of land belonging to the Forest Department in the Kacha region on both sides of the Indus River, of which, according to the department, a large area is occupied by bandits.

The Kacha region is dry for most of the year but is flooded during the flood season and the soil here is considered to be the most fertile due to the presence of riverine minerals.

According to the estimates of the Sindh Disaster Department, there is a population of more than 1 million, who are engaged in cattle rearing and agriculture.

The police are scared.

The government of Sindh issued an order this year and fixed a price of Rs 50 crore on the heads of 275 dacoits and other accused involved in serious crimes in Sindh.

These include a reward ranging from Rs.5 lakh to Rs.70 lakh for each dacoit.

Most of these dacoits belong to Shikarpur district and according to the police department, the number of wanted dacoits from Shikarpur is 146. Second is Kashmore with 64 and third is Ghotki with 33 most wanted dacoits.

According to journalist John Muhammad Maher associated with the Sindhi TV channel ‘KTN’, the police personnel are afraid of the deaths of their colleagues during police operations, ineffective weapons and bullets even in armor, that’s why they are afraid of ground fighting. .

John Muhammad has also gone to the Kacha area and interviewed the dacoits