The financial capital’s existing web of closed circuit cameras will soon be extended. The State Cabinet is likely to clear a new proposal to install additional 5,000 closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras around Mumbai at a cost of ₹325 crore when it meets next week.

The proposal will be tabled before the Cabinet based on a report submitted by the Mumbai Police Comissioner in September last year, demanding more cameras in the uncovered bylanes and regions around the coast, officials said.

“The proposal recommends awarding work to the same consortium which earlier completed the CCTV network of Mumbai. We are looking at several intersections and small roads which have not been covered earlier,” said a senior official of the State Home Department.

The city already has a network of 4,717 cameras at 1,510 spots inaugurated in 2016, made fully operational in 2017. These include fixed box, pan/tilt/zoom and thermal cameras, and five mobile video surveillance vans. The feed from all cameras is transferred to Mumbai Police and Traffic control rooms. The original proposal for Mumbai was to install 6,000 cameras.

The first phase was inaugurated on November 30, 2015, covering 434 locations with 1,381 cameras in south Mumbai. The first tender was worth ₹88 crore. However, an audit had found 111 of these to be dysfunctional soon after.

Activists and social organisations have raised doubts about the technical capabilities and limitations of the network, saying it had failed to provide accurate footage and reach. Calling for an audit, activists have been demanding that more cameras be installed for a densely populated city like Mumbai.

They have in several demands forwarded to the State said that while the latest data is encouraging, policing on ground and positioning of cameras must improve.

Senior officials last year said that the police used CCTV camera footage in 1,287 cases in Mumbai and solved crimes in 520 of these.

“Having more cameras will improve this rate in the future,” the official said.