Bring all west zone districts under CCTV blanket: DGP

Coimbatore: Director general of police (DGP) Dr C Sylendra Babu has instructed police officials to bring all the districts in the west zone under CCTV blanket to prevent and detect crimes.
“CCTV cameras help track many crimes, mainly chain snatching cases. Police officials should approach industrial players, residential welfare associations and others to install more CCTV cameras in their cities. The urban and semi urban areas also should be brought under the CCTV blanket. This will help prevent and detect crimes,” he said in a meeting with senior police officials in the west zone at the city police commissionerate here on Friday evening.
The DGP has instructed them to take strict measures to curtail the movement and sales of banned tobacco products, marijuana (ganja), illegal drugs and banned lottery tickets in the region. “These crimes should be treated as social evil and stringent action should be taken against the people selling them. Special and local laws should be enforced strictly.” He also asked the officials to focus on curbing road accidents. “More number of fatal and non-fatal accidents are reported from western Tamil Nadu. Officials should take necessary steps to reduce the fatalities.” The meeting was attended by city police commissioner Deepak M Damor, Tirupur city police commissioner V Vanitha, inspector general of police (west zone) R Sudhakar, DIG Muthusamy (Coimbatore), DIG Maheswari (Salem range) and SPs of the eight districts in the west zone.