CCTV cameras with AI software will help keep tab on criminals

Vadodara: New cameras with advanced technology will help police department in not only issuing e-challans for traffic rule violations, but also for quick detection of crime and keeping a tab on history-sheeters and anti-social elements in the city. Artificial intelligence facial recognition software of home department of state government will be first tried in the city as the software will be synced with all CCTV cameras. Senior police officials said the software will alert the control room if a history-sheeter on the run is captured by the cameras. “We have photo records of all convicts and accused in our e-GujCop data which will be synced with the software. So if any of those persons, who are wanted, are seen in the CCTV cameras, the system will pop-up an alert,” said police commissioner Anupam Singh Gahlaut. He added that this will also help in finding missing persons. Gahlaut told TOI that this software will not be used to keep a tab on innocent citizens. “The software will have photos available only in our data and no other citizens’ photo will be fed into the system,” he said. He added that photos of those persons acquitted by the court will not be there in the software. The software will become operational on Monday. tnn