The police commissioner’s office has successfully experimented with the use of high-resolution surveillance camera.
The police in Mangalore are resorting to technology to safeguard the coast, whose vulnerability was exposed by the 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai, wherein militants entered the country through sea route.
The police commissioner’s office here has successfully experimented with the use of high-resolution surveillance camera, which has been appreciated by the intelligence chiefs, DG of police and the chief minister.
“The surveillance system has come as a boon to the police in Mangalore after the commissionerate’s new building has been fully operational. It can show me 2.5 kilometre around the office and can show clear visuals of the coast, old port parts of New Mangalore Port and areas that cause major law and order problems, including Bunder, bus stand and market areas. This system was recommended to me by Infosys engineers,” city police commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh said.
“If erected on a high mast—say on a series of 100-feet-tall tower all along the coast—it can be our eye over the coast and the Coast Guard and the Coastal Security Police (CSP) can have a primary source of surveillance,” Singh said.
Sources in the intelligence agreed that the continuous surveillance of the coast could be one of the best things to happen to coastal security. The maritime traffic on the coast was on the increase and with the coast being ‘porous’, the round-the-clock surveillance will help in tracking each vessel approaching the land.
Sources in the CSP said that the coast was always active and many times, tracking a boat was like looking for a needle in the haystack. However, since the surveillance systems are based on IP numbers, any station can access the surveillance results and pinpoint the spot and take action.
IGP (Western Range) Pratap Reddy welcomed 24X7 surveillance of the coast and felt it would aid CSP in guarding the coast in a more effective manner.
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