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 CCTV cameras have been installed. The police had directed all banks to install CCTVs in their branches and ATMs. 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 and 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.
“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.
The memo from the police commissioner has directed the police to check lodges, places of worship, apartments and commercial buildings such as jewellery shops, pawn brokers, hotels to know if CCTV cameras have been installed.
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