According to crime statistics, Karachi saw over 2,000 targeted killings, 1,790 kidnappings for ransom, and thousands of vehicle, motorcycle, and cell phone thefts in 2012. Basic safety precautions are suggested, such as varying routines, traveling in groups, avoiding luxury vehicles and high-risk areas, and not engaging with assailants. Security is an evolving process that requires changing practices as criminal methods change. The Citizens Police Liaison Committee reports crime statistics but many incidents go unreported.

1. “If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical
care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.”
Dwight D.Eisenhower
Tips on Mugging/Extortion/Kidnapping

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Town Wise Layout of Karachi
According to estimates from the Human Rights
Commission of Pakistan, close to 2,284 people were
killed in violent attacks in Karachi in 2012. Victims
range from civilians to policemen, the paramilitary
Rangers to development workers, journalists to
lawyers.

3. Behavior Suggestions on Mugging, Extortion and Kidnapping:
• Be unpredictable. Do not settle into a routine. Vary times and routes to and from work or social
engagements.
• Remember, there is safety in numbers. Avoid going out alone. When traveling long distances by
automobile, go in a convoy. Avoid dangerous areas of the city.
• A privately owned car generally offers the best security. Avoid luxury or ostentatious cars. Keep
your automobile in good repair and the gas tank at least half full. Driving in the center lane of a
multiple lane highway makes it difficult for the car to be forced off the road.
• You should immediately change your number if an extortionist calls also refuse to talk and do
not engage in any conversation with him till you are told by the authorities pursuing your case
for you.

4. • Avoid moving in high risk areas in the city.
• Be aware of what happens in the city by listening to the radio and subscribing to
alerts.
• Don’t use your cell phones enroute as excessive texting or scrolling takes up your
concentration and you lose sense of things and people around you.
• Don’t stop to share at any unusual scene on the road, it may be a set up.
• CPLC has a self claimed success rates of 98.7% while trying out cases of kidnapping,
give them a try, you have your life to lose in return.
• Give the robber what he wants--money or personal items--without hesitation. Your life
is worth more than your cash and jewelry.
• Talk only if you're spoken to. Avoid getting angry and never speak sarcastically.
Words are weapons that can offend and incite. Keep yours in their holster.

5. A final word of Advice
1. The overwhelming majority of victims have been
targeted in their vehicles on the way to or from work.
2. A large number of people targeted have ignored the
most basic security precautions thus sometimes the
obvious has to be stated again and again.
3. Violent tactics used by culprits are not static. As
precautions prove effective, they change their methods,
so you must change your security settings as well. As we
say that security is an evolving process and should never
ideally stop.

6. CPLC – An Overview
The following crime statistics for 2012 are based on reporting by the Citizens Police
Liaison Committee (CPLC) and local law enforcement reports; however, many crimes
remain unreported:
2,032 targeted killings (murders associated with political, sectarian or terrorist groups)
1,790 kidnappings for ransom
4,720 vehicle thefts with approximately 42 percent recovered
18,774 motorcycle thefts with approximately 12 percent recovered
23,962 cell phone thefts

7. Maj ® Usman Farooq
Monarch Security Services (Pvt.) Ltd.
Southern Region
Sweet Dreams