If you want to know how security checks at malls work in Karachi
August 27, 2017
I really want to understand how our shopping malls’ security works in Karachi. There are signs that I have witnessed at some places saying ‘No Guns’ or ‘No Weapons’. (Yeah, because that’s what’s going to stop someone.) Then there are metal detector gates I call ‘pass through gates’ (I don’t actually know what they do). You ‘pass through’ them but before this act of movement you are asked to keep your bag and mobile on the side counter. There’s no scanner to have the bags’ contents scanned. Then you walk through and sometimes it beeps if you have some metal on you but no one stops you. Bags are mostly handed back to you either with no bother to check or by giving a small glance inside. Hmm…So if the bag has a bomb or a gun then…?
I don’t get it.
Several times, I have passed through the security of malls with my large size Swiss Knife in my bag. What if I were a psychopath who is on a mission to depopulate the Earth? Once my knife was hanging on my belt and I walked through the gate and no beep was heard. The gate wasn’t even connected to the electric socket. Once a gate beeped but no one stopped me. Again, once at Dolmen Mall, Emque’s Swiss knife dropped from her bag at the security and guess what…the security officer picked it up and handed over to her (HAHAHA).
Ok, let’s forget about the security gate for a while.
Last month I went to Club Royal Rodale in DHA Karachi with a friend to attend a festival. Just like all the clubs, there was ‘security’ at the gate. Means there were ‘guards’ present on duty with weapons. When people entered, they were asked to ‘pass through’ a gate (you know what kind of gate I am talking about.) Seeing guards and a big name of a club, you would automatically assume ‘it’s safe’ in there. Well, my friend and I were sitting in its compound waiting for our car watching the gate (with ‘security’) right in front of us feeling very ‘secure’ when the commotion started and a man came running inside through the gate (which had the guards) without shoes being chased by a bunch of large size men who all ran straight inside the club and then out in open in the compound right in front of us and started beating the hell out of the man. The guards didn’t do a thing because they are only allowed to have weapons for the show not to shoot the bad guys. Besides, what these flimsy looking guards can do any way. They have no physical strength. They are not even trained. They are just the mannequins of security guards’ uniforms.
What if those men had guns and they would start shooting at the poor man who was being beaten right in front of us?
Did the security gate serve its purpose? Did the rogue men stop for the check at the gate before been authorized to conduct their business inside?
I don’t get it.
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