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47 signal points to be upgraded with CCTVs
Answering questions on traffic management plan in view of ever growing number of vehicles, the Commissioner said he sent a proposal seeking six more exclusive traffic police stations in addition to the existing seven traffic police stations.
Visakhapatnam: City Commissioner of Police Amit Garg said 47 traffic signal points in the city will be upgraded with CCTV cameras in the next two weeks, while inaugurating the Airlova Traffic Police Station at Hanumanthawaka Junction area here on Monday.
Speaking on the occasion, the Commissioner said as part of smart policing and security action plan of Vizag, 128 surveillance cameras have been installed at 47 junctions by the Hyderabad-based private firm Stan Power on BOT basis and set up another 130 cameras in the next phase at 47 junctions to bring the city under the surveillance radar.
Though the CCTV project was taken up in March, 2013 and supposed to have been completed by December 2013, the project could not go ahead due to lack of coordination between the GVMC and the private firm. Even the Super Cyclone Hudhud destroyed over 97 signal points and delayed further execution of the project.
The Commissioner said the camera network will comprise of both fixed and PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) cameras. Apart from monitoring traffic, the cameras will also supplement the surveillance network of the police. The police are monitoring traffic at few junctions in the city through the command control centre and a video wall with 130 monitors displaying the CCTV footage at various places in the city will be set up in few weeks at the new police Commissionerate building, the Commissioner added.
Answering questions on traffic management plan in view of ever growing number of vehicles, the Commissioner said he sent a proposal seeking six more exclusive traffic police stations in addition to the existing seven traffic police stations. The CP made it clear that the Arilova police station was not a full-fledged traffic police station but a traffic detachment of the PM Palem police station and not part of the proposed six traffic police stations.
There are six detachments located at Pendurthi, Parawada, Bhhimili, Anandapuram, Malkapuram and Steel Plant, apart from Arilova. Each detachment station is manned by an SI rank officer, he said.
