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Hyderabad ‘March ’29 ‘2023 (PMI)-The Community CCTV projects & self-driven interest amongst general public to install CCTVs, which suffered setback due to economic crisis during the pandemic hit years, are now revived in the city with renewed vigour with the inauguration of new CCTVs in central zone limits here on Wednesday.
In an event organised by the central Zone at Thyagarayagana Sabha, City Police Commissioner Mr.CV Anand attended as the chief guest and inaugurated 77 CCTV cameras amid the thunderous applause from residents, generous donors and public representatives. The cost of the project was around 25 Lakhs and the contribution was made by 9 good Samaritans as part of the community CCTV project. The 77 cameras were installed at 34 different locations in Chikkadpally, Musheerabad & Gandhinagar limits covering crime prone areas and other vital junctions.
Addressing the gathering, the city police chief attributed the dip in crime rate, improved women safety and detection of property cases to the improved electronic surveillance in Hyderabad. He said the Government had the foresight in according top priority in allocating resources to the police department & setting up a world class command control center, which is now at the verge of integrating 10 Lakh camera feeds, police commissioner said that peace, sound Law & order -served as the fulcrum & set a strong base which made the city & state to excel in economic development and in all spheres.
Mentioning the Telangana Public Safety Act, he apprised the attendees about the importance of CCTVs not just in crime controlling but also in other social, economic aspects and appealed to restart fixing cameras in their premises like a movement.
“Efforts are underway to fix the defunct cameras through D-CAMO. ” he added.
“Right from setting up the first ever live transmission CCTV in 2002 in Necklaceroad to executing numerous CCTV projects post formation of Telangana to reviving CCTV projects & establishing D-CAMO, our unit leader has designed & developed numerous CCTVs networks.” Said the central zone police while proposing vote of thanks.
CP Anand appreciated the efforts of the central zone police and felicitated the donors.Each one of them were complimented with a memento and appreciation certificate. A 10 minute documentary “On the importance of CCTVs and real-world incidents.” was screened on the occasion.
Sri. Muta Gopal MLA Musheerabad Constituency ,Sri.M.Venkateswarlu DCP Central Zone, Sri.A.Ramana Reddy Addl.DCP CZ, Sri.A.Yadagiri ACP Chikkadpally, Sri.K.Poorna chander ACP Abids, Sri.R.Sanjay Kumar ACP Saifabad and all Inspectors and Sis staff were present(PMI)
