Cops ask for 300 more eyes

New high-resolution cameras to help police monitor crime and add to existing 160 being used to monitor traffic

New high-resolution cameras to help police monitor crime and add to existing 160 being used to monitor traffic

Three hundred more secret eyes could be guarding the city soon if the government accepts the city police's proposal for some more high-resolution cameras.
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The Traffic Management Centre (TMC) already has 160 cameras installed in the city that are used to monitor traffic violations like signal jumping, overstepping zebra crossings, accident at signals, not wearing helmets and using mobile phones while driving.

"The city will get the additional 300 hundred cameras by the last week of July. Unlike existing cameras, the new ones will also be used to monitor crime in the city," said a source in the Crime Branch.

The new cameras are to be installed at 20 arterial routes, including MG Road and Commercial Street.

The new cameras will reportedly be installed at 20 arterial routes, including MG Road, Brigade Road and Commercial Street.

Both the crime branch as well as the traffic police will have access to the output from these cameras. SA Pasha, ACP, Traffic Training Institute, confirmed that the proposal for more cameras has been made.

"It is true. However, we don't require any more cameras. It is the Crime Branch that will be mainly using them, and while they will monitor the images from a separate control room, we will be working in close coordination with them.

Besides their own cameras, they will access our cameras, whichu00a0 will help them monitor the city's roads like we do," said Pasha.

160
The number of cameras, pan, tilt and zoom varieties that are used by the TMC to monitor traffic