The state government has decided to install 1,400 advanced CCTV cameras to keep the city under tight surveillance at the cost of INR 17cr. City police commissioner Sumit Sharan stated ‘’presently the city is under the surveillance of 21000 CCTV cameras. We have been installing CCTV cameras on various streets with the help of public. We have sent a proposal to the state to fix 1400 advanced CCTV cameras at important junctions and entry and exit points of the city in January’’.

He also stated that CCTV cameras act as a third eye and further said that no one could escape from them. ‘’CCTV footage could be used as an evidence when it comes to crimes and accidents. The more the number of CCTV cameras the more the chances of bringing down the crime rate in the city’’. He further added more CCTV camera would help in monitoring the law and order situation and prevention and detection of crime.

Another police administrative stated that ‘’advanced high resolution cameras will be produced under the project. We have identified 716 places in the city to install them. All cameras will be linked to the master control room which will be set up at city police commissioner’’.

Neighboring Tirupur would meanwhile get 1200 CCTV cameras in the city limits at the outlay of INR 12cr. the city police commissioner G Karthikeyan, Tirupur stated they have already identified the places to install the cameras ‘’after the allotment of funds, the project will start’’.

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