As many as 15,920 cameras installed by police in Surat with public participation, integrated with CCTV location app As many as 15,920 cameras installed by police in Surat with public participation, integrated with CCTV location app

Surat city will get CCTV coverage, monitor criminal activities

Surat City is known as Diamond and Textile City. While the population of this city is around 80 lakhs, daily movement of lakhs of people live in Surat city. In order to keep the city safer, a campaign was undertaken by the Surat Police to install CCTV cameras at different places in the city with public participation. As many as 15,920 cameras have been installed by the police with public participation. However, in the year 2012, around 700 CCTV cameras were installed in Surat. It was monitored from the police control room. Now these new 15,920 CCTV cameras installed in the city through public participation have also been integrated with the police’s CCTV location app.

The campaign to install CCTV cameras was a success
Peaceful and Safe Surat City campaign is a campaign undertaken by police to maintain law and order situation in Surat city and to prevent crime incidents and detect crimes in Surat city. Under this campaign, society factories, industries, textile markets, shopping malls, shops, petrol pumps, parking plots, educational institutes and banks located in different police station areas of Zone-1 to 6 under Surat city Sector-1 and Sector-2. CCTV cameras have been installed by the police with the cooperation of the public. A campaign was carried out by the police to install night vision CCTV cameras to provide public road view with public participation by meeting the trustees of the organization, traders and different associations. This campaign to install CCTV cameras with public participation of Surat City Police has been very successful.

Voluntary Financial assistance to organizations and entrepreneurs
Around 15,920 CCTV cameras have been installed in different areas of Surat city, such as shopping malls, textile markets, banks, diamond markets, educational institutes and parking plots, with public participation, and installation of 1,398 cameras will be carried out in the coming days. Importantly, all these CCTV cameras have been integrated with Surat City Police’s CCTV Location App. In the coming days, all these cameras will be used by the police as part of maintaining law and order.

Criminal acts will be watched closely
Surat Police Commissioner said today that since these new CCTV cameras have been added to the police CCTV network, the police will now be able to monitor the internal roads of the city with CCTV. These cameras will help the police in the detection of property-related or other serious crimes in the city, besides arresting the accused and identifying the vehicle. In addition to this, all matters were studied by Surat City Police Commissioner to control crime and criminals in Surat city and then a campaign to open new history sheets was launched in May 2013. It was decided to open a total of 249 new history sheets under this campaign and out of which 127 history sheets have been opened and the process of opening 122 history sheets is underway.