Click to play videoBangalore: IT hub Bangalore has decided to put plans in place to thwart terror attacks.
The garden city will not let a false sense of complacency hurt its security prospects.
Cameras will now monitor every suspicious movement at traffic junctions, market places and vital buildings across the IT city.
The Bangalore police plan to install 500 such eyes in the sky in the next six months.
The idea is to monitor suspicious persons and objects.
DG & IGP of Karnataka police, R Srikumar said, ”With video cameras, more number of areas can be patrolled by a single policeman sitting at his desk and viewing all things. Morever, when u combine video analytics with it, you also have alert generation for certain unattended objects.”
The cameras are being installed primarily due to the serial bomb blasts that rocked Bangalore in July.
The culprits are still at large and sadly, the police have not a clue as to who were the perpetrators of the ghastly acts.
The cameras will operate on high resolution so that observing even minute details of suspicious people and objects will be possible.
The other benefit is drawn from the fact that these cameras are on a network, thus facilitating continuity.
So, should the police want to track a particular car that has moved away from one camera, the camera at the next junction could pick it up and track it.
The government has asked malls and IT companies in the cities to install their own video surveillance systems on the lines of the one done at the state assembly, the Vidhana Soudha.
The fact that the July 7 blasts of London were cracked due to inputs derived from the surveillance cameras is not lost on the Bangalore police.
These cameras could also help track other crimes in the city.
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