Mumbai Police to install 5,000 CCTVs in the city

The Mumbai Police are undertaking a ambitious project to beef-up city's
security by installing a network of 5,000 closed circuit television (CCTVs)
cameras across important locations in the city.

This security plan is one of the recommendation the Indian Merchants'
Chambers (IMC) had suggested to the Govern­ment of Maharashtra after terror
attacks rocked Mumbai, last year. Vijay Mukhi, Chairman-Homeland Security and
IT, IMC said, "IMC had made several recommendations about security of the city
after the attacks happened last year and setting up a blanket security camera
cover across the city was one of the recommendation to the state government."

Following the recom­mendation, the Chief Minister had formed an eight-member
committee comprising four members from IMC and others from government and police
department, which has been asked to submit an action plan within 15 days time
for blanket security camera cover for Mumbai.

Mumbai Police Commis­sioner D Sivanandan said that 5,000 cameras would be set
up at all important locations in the city and would allow police officials to
monitor all major events in these places from a command center in the control
room at the police commissionerate. Sivanandan had discussed the project with
Mukhi at IMC's base in Mumbai on Wednesday.

The police commi­ssioner informed that the footage from the closed circuit
cameras would be stored and retrieved to aid investigations in a particular
event that wasn't noticed at the time of its occurrence. The project will
involve a private agency that will carry out the installation, mainte­nance and
up-gradation of cameras, while the police depart­ment would control the system.

Source: CIOL