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Cameras to monitor old bus stand

R Vimal Kumar

Team will be posted at control room for surveillance: SP

Photo: M. Balaji

Trial run: Superintendent of Police S. Santhi taking a look at the image brought out by the CCTV network at old bus stand in Tirupur on Monday. –

Tirupur: The district police administration has chalked out plans to commission a full-fledged Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) network in the ever-crowded old bus stand in the city.

Superintendent of Police S. Santhi inspected the trial run of CCTV network with temporary placing of surveillance cameras underway on the old bus stand premises, on Monday.

Ms. Santhi told The Hindu that a CCTV network with cameras strategically located would help the police keep a tab on crowd movement.

“Live-feed from these cameras to the centralised monitoring centre will help us pin-point trouble makers, pockets pickers, compulsive eve-teasers and criminal elements,” she said.

On the basis of the visual data, plainclothes or uniformed police personnel could be easily directed to the spot.

Ms. Santhi said that a team under the head of a Sub-Inspector would be posted at the control room of CCTV network for round-the-clock surveillance once the project was inaugurated.

The footage would also help the police trace people missed in the crowd.

A CCTV network at the old bus stand has been a long-pending demand of frequent commuters considering the general increase in the incidence of crimes such as pickpocket, chain snatching and eve-teasing, as the bus station is a hub for all South-bound long distance buses.

The bus stand is thronged by thousands of passengers every moment as about 75 per cent of the migrant workforce based in the Tirupur knitwear cluster comes from places like cities/towns situated South.

Ms. Santhi said that plans were afoot to introduce CCTV network on the new bus stand premises also in the future.

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