10 lakh more CCTV cameras in city in 3 yrs
Stating that CCTV cameras have helped detect at least 37% of crime in Hyderabad city during 2014-17, the Director General of Police (DGP) M Mahendar Reddy asked colony associat
Published: 15th July 2018 06:18 AM | Last Updated: 15th July 2018 06:18 AM | A+A A-
HYDERABAD: Stating that CCTV cameras have helped detect at least 37% of crime in Hyderabad city during 2014-17, the Director General of Police (DGP) M Mahendar Reddy asked colony associations, public and business establishments to equip CCTVs at their premises to prevent crime incidents.
THE DGP made these remarks at a conference on Community CCTV project held at the JNTU auditorium in Kukatpally on Saturday. CCTV integrators from 31 revenue districts of State attended the meeting.
“Each CCTV has a potential of 100 police personnel. It always speaks truth and it never lies. It has the credibility in the eyes if community and in the eyes of the court’’ the DGP said.Later a resolution was taken at the meeting that the city would get 10 lakh cameras, and the state would get 15 lakh cameras in the state in the next three years.
