509 camera cops for capital


An ambitious Jharkhand Police project to bring capital Ranchi under comprehensive digital surveillance has finally taken off the ground with expressions of interest (EOI) being invited from private players.
IG (provisions) Arun Kumar Singh, who is handling the Rs 51-crore mission, told this newspaper that the EOIs were requested on June 26 for 509 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras that would be installed across 159 strategic locations to aid crime control.
The Raghubar Das government had, in February last year, announced in the Assembly that the capital city would be brought under effective CCTV surveillance during a heated debate on deteriorating law and order in Ranchi.
IG Singh said the tender process would be completed by the end of August. "There will be other formalities that will be swiftly completed before the contract is awarded. The (police) department plans to complete the first phase of camera installation by mid-January next year. The second and final phase will be over by March-end," he said.
The state police are expected to sign a five-year maintenance and operation agreement with the selected bidder.
Seventeen thanas are among the 159 locations where the CCTV cameras would be installed. The list comprises Chutia, Daily Market, Mahila, Kotwali, Gonda, Kanke, Bariatu, Khelgaon, Sadar, Namkum, Doranda, Jagannathpur, Dhurwa, Argora, Nagri, Sukhdeonagar and Lalpur police stations.
Since tease gangs and stalkers often haunt academic institutions, the integrated surveillance system would cover Ranchi Women's College, Marwari College, St Xavier's College, St John's Intermediate College and Nirmala College.
Police stations and colleges apart, CCTV cameras will also be installed at Kutchery Chowk, Jail Chowk, East Jail More, Lalpur Chowk, Dangratoli, Bahu Bazaar, Ranchi railway station, Khadgarha bus stand, Sujata Chowk, Albert Ekka Chowk, Lake Road and Morabadi, among others.
Sources involved with the big-ticket project said 279 fixed cameras, 42 pan-tilt-zoom cameras, 94 red light violation detecting (RLVD) cameras and 94 automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras will be installed.
IG Singh said RLVD and ANPR cameras would be of great help in cases of traffic violations and that the government was planning to rope in telecom PSU BSNL as its technical partner in the project for networking services. "The DIG office in Kutchery is likely to become the central feed monitoring centre," he added.
Ranchi SSP Kuldeep Dwivedi said nowadays, CCTV cameras had become one of the primary tools in crime prevention, investigation, detection and post-investigative documentation. "The cameras will help us marshal and manoeuvre resources in real time to track down fugitive criminals," Dwivedi said, adding that effective electronic surveillance would automatically increase the efficiency of Ranchi police.
A DSP-rank officer said earlier CCTV vigil was limited to festivals, political rallies and important functions. "Police had to depend on cameras installed on private premises (banks, malls, shops and homes) to investigate cases. Getting proper CCTV footage was a matter of luck because many individuals and private organisations either use cheap, substandard devices or are not in the habit of storing footage. Finally, we shall have our own surveillance network for effective policing," he summed up.
Ref: https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170703/jsp/jharkhand/story_159821.jsp

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