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enforcement of traffic laws.
As part of its efforts to make
Hyderabad, a ‘safe and secure’ city,
the Hyderabad Police has recently
launched vehicle mounted CCTV
cameras that provide a 360 degree
panoramic view. These vehicles will
be linked to ‘Command Control
Centre’ from where the footage
captured will be monitored. The
footage can be stored for 15-days.
Anil Kumar, Additional
Commissioner of Police (Traffic),
In a bid to catch those drivers who Hyderabad said, “This project will Red Light jumping. Nearly 1000 cases
slow down when they spot cameras, help in making Hyderabad a ‘safe are booked every day for different
the police can now track the time and secure’ city. Under the mobile road violations like Stop line jumping
taken by the driver between cameras. surveillance, the vehicles mounted and others through surveillance. And
R Sreelekha, Additional Director with CCTV cameras will film after close to 400 cases are booked every
General of Police, Social Policing moving in different locations. day for over- speeding. We have seen
and Traffic, Kerela, said, “The Kerala The proposed Integrated Traffic major impact in the City by installing
Motor Vehicle has come up with a Management System (ITMS) system the technology; citizens/ drivers are
new plan to get drivers to adhere too would come as a major deterrent vigilant on roads and even at night
to traffic rules: by putting up a new to traffic law violators. The city would time they will wait or stop at the
type of traffic camera that will help have nearly 4,500 CCTVs under ITMS see red-light. We have seen a drastic
catch those who slow down for the and the Safe and Smart City concepts. change in the behaviour or greater
cameras, but tend to speed otherwise. “About 1,000 CCTV cameras will compliance on the part of citizens.
The new cameras will record the be installed at intersections under the We have procured the system from
time taken by the driver to cross the ITMS project, while 3,500 cameras Matrix. We want to advance to the
distance between the cameras. are going to be installed under the next level of technology, which can
“Unlike surveillance cameras Safe and Smart City concept,” he detect violations at one go: Stop
usually seen on the highways, these said. line Crossing/Jumping, Red Light
speed control cameras are installed The Government of Telangana Jumping, Over Speeding, Zig- Zag
at a specific distance from each has initiated a series of measures Driving and Wrong-side Driving. All
other. They will capture images of to upgrade the standards of safety these violations can be identified with
speeding vehicles and send it to a and security in Hyderabad with an the help of the same technology.”
central server in Kochi. The images objective to transform the City into a He added, “We have Video wall
will then be printed and analysed Global city and the City Police into a that is being regularly monitored.
to nab the offenders. There will be Global City Police. Every day, around 1000 cases are
separate traffic control rooms set up As part of the effort to provide booked based on the CCTV camera
to monitor speeding vehicles.” Electronic Video Surveillance System, feeds. We have laser-guns for over
the Police department has initiated speeding. This gun can record the
Making Hyderabad ‘Safe’ & various citizens’s safety and security speed of the vehicle. Challans are also
‘Secure’ programs such as city-wide Safe City issued based on the results obtained

Technology is once again proving Project, Community CCTV Project and from the laser guns. It is purely
to be a crucial tool for the Hyderabad Nenusaitham Project. evidence based, so when a challan
Police. The traffic wing of the city Anil Kumar said, “ALVR technology is issued, we also provide with it the
police, which has been relying heavily was introduced three-four years back evidences and the recordings.”
upon the CCTV network across the and since then the system has been Hyderabad has installed fixed
city for various uses, is now making working successfully. On an average surveillance cameras on all 25 cranes
it one of the primary forms of day, around 500 cases are booked for across the city. There is a complete

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