Hyderabad Police Commissioner directs officials to strengthen CCTV functioning
City Police Commissioner CV Anand has laid emphasis on the maintenance and installation of new CC cameras. The Commissioner reviewed the various departments of the city police
- City News
NewsTAP Bureau- Updated On:4 March 2023 1:23 PM GMT
HYDERABAD: City Police Commissioner CV Anand has laid emphasis on the maintenance and installation of new CC cameras. The Commissioner reviewed the various departments of the city police on Friday.
He took stock of the several CCTV projects, the working status of the cameras and targets were set for each station house officer and DCP to install new cameras. A new wing called D-CAMO (Drones & Cameras Maintenance Organisation) is now launched to deal with all CCTV camera & Drone repairs, projects, and execution which would be headed by an Addl.DCP/ACP rank officer which was further structured into four sub-wings.
An independent third party audit would be carried out across the city to identify the grey spots lacking CCTV coverage and to check the working condition of the existing cameras.
“Let us sensitize the public on the significance of CCTVs in crime prevention and detection,” he said.
The Commissioner expressed satisfaction with the overwhelming response to the online amusement licenses system, which received over 1,183 applications in the past few weeks. Taking cue from this, IT cell was tasked to bring in more police services like the issue of Arms licenses online for the convenience of the public.
Ahead of festivals, including Holi, Shab-E-Barat, Ramzan , Sri Rama Navami and Hanuman Jayanthi, the CP instructed to bind over communal and rowdy elements. launch new peace committees with more youngsters on board, he said.
He also asked officials to initiate more programs towards health and wellness through the FitCop program, and to support the homes of the fallen heroes of the force, the need for CPR education in light of the death of a young and fit constable recently.
The meeting delved in detail about the performance of patrols and blue colts, the effective functioning of the night round system, progress of action plan for 2023. All the DCPs were directed to closely monitor the station functioning and were told to adhere to protocols in lock-up custodies.
