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A drive to ensure CCTV cameras in Bangalore buildings

The Bangalore police are a busy lot now, after the commissioner ordered them to identify and report places, including apartment complexes and shrines, where closed-circuit television cameras have been installed.

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The Bangalore police are a busy lot now, after the commissioner ordered them to identify and report places, including apartment complexes and shrines, where closed-circuit television cameras have been installed. The memo issued by the city police commissioner’s office directed the inspectors of all police stations to submit the report on or before March 28.

Earlier, police commissioner Shankar M Bidari and joint commissioner of police (crime) Alok Kumar had directed all police stations to hold security meetings with bank officials in their respective jurisdiction.

The police had directed all banks to install CCTVs in their branches and ATMs. This was to help identify criminals. The memo has directed the police to check all jewellery shops, pawn brokers, hotels, lodges, places of worship, apartments and commercial buildings to know if CCTV cameras have been installed.

“We have received a memo from the police commissioner. We are collecting the details and submit a report to the commissioner's office. We will serve the notice to the temples, churches, mosques and apartment owners to install the CCTV cameras,” a police officer said on the condition of anonymity.

Installing CCTV cameras would help the police solve crimes. “We are at times left clueless in instances of crimes committed in lodges. It will be helpful if CCTV camera captured the footage of those who checks into lodges,” an officer said.

CCTV cameras in places of worship have been mooted in the light of several cases of thefts as well as miscreants desecrating such places for creating communal tension.

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