LG’s team goes to Surat to study CCTV operations
6 Jun 2014 11:27 PM GMT
The Delhi Police has been asked to study the CCTV matrix of Surat city of Gujarat. Three top police officials — Special Commissioner (Operations) Sundari Nanda, Joint Commissioner (Traffic) Anil Shukla and Deputy Commissioner (Communications) Naved Mumtaz are on tour to Surat to study the CCTV monitoring system of the city.
The officials were sent following Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung’s orders.
In the year 2013, the Surat police inaugurated the CCTV system with installation of 104 cameras at prime locations of the city. The high-end cameras can also capture activities in night hours. The Surat police have set up a command centre for monitoring of these cameras and the sleuths are getting a real time data of 104 locations for a better law and order in the city.
‘The Delhi Police team will study the operational system of CCTV cameras in Surat. They will implement the same matrix in Delhi,’ said a senior official posted with the LG’s secretariat. According to Delhi Police sources: ‘More than 1,300 CCTV cameras have already been installed for surveillance, cleared by the ministry of home affairs. Around 300 cameras have been set up at market places and border check posts. The work for installation of 3,973 CCTV cameras at important places include the Supreme Court, Delhi High court, six district courts of Delhi, Raj Niwas, VP House locations, markets etc.
The Delhi Police have installed cameras at crowded and high-risk areas like Connaught Place, India Gate and other areas.
Delhi already has a number of cameras installed at various places. The city government’s information and technology department recently installed 28 high-end pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras at different locations.
These cameras were supposed to be installed before the Commonwealth Games 2010.
In spite of above installation of CCTV cameras in the Capital, Raj Niwas is, now, going to follow the Surat model to keep track of the activities of terrorists and criminals, especially to keep an eye on crime against women.
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