Surveillance on Wheels

C.V.Anand checking the working mechanism of vehicle mounted cameras.

Cyberabad Police Commissioner C.V.Anand has urged welfare associations of colonies and apartments to install CCTV cameras to curb activities of anti-social elements. Speaking at a community CCTV programme held on Thursday at Balanagar, he said that the Cyberabad police was planning to set up an aerial surveillance system across the jurisdiction of Cyberabad covering about 3,700 square km.

He said several chain snatchers and attention diversion gangs had been nabbed with the assistance of CCTV footage. He appreciated residential associations, educational institutes, business establishments and industrialists who had come forward for setting up CCTV cameras.

Several sections from Balanagar zone have been planning to install 512 CCTVs. Under the first phase on Thursday as many as 102 CCTVs were installed with Rs 1.8 crore. In another programme, CV Anand launched five vehicle-mounted cameras and said that each vehicle would work for each zone of the commissionerate. Specially desgined vehicle mounted cameras will help the field level personnel to easily record any incidents such as communal riots, meetings, Rallies and these cameras also provide live feed to the control room. Thus it enables the senior officer to instruct the field level personnel and suggests to tackle the situation properly.