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Police lay out elaborate plans to bring entire Dhaka city under CCTV surveillance
Jamal Uddin
Published at 05:43 PM November 29, 2017
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16,000 surveillance cameras will be installed in Dhaka
Police have decided to set up closed-circuit cameras to look for criminals in Dhaka. The cameras, to be installed under the Development of Dhaka City Digital Monitoring project, will be linked to a police database and equipped with facial recognition.
They will quickly identify criminals and send pictures to the central command and nearby police stations. Policemen of the concerned police station will then move in to nab the criminal.
Police officials say crimes such as mugging and extortion are making residents of the capital feel insecure.
“It becomes difficult for police to identify the criminals. In many cases, it is impossible to identify the perpetrators,” Additional Inspector General (development) Gazi Mozammel Haque of Police Headquarters said. “CCTV and related technologies are being used worldwide to tackle these crimes.”
He said modern cities are under CCTV surveillance. “The surveillance is monitored from a central command centre in cities, which makes it possible for police to respond quickly,” he noted.
Mozammel said 16,000 surveillance cameras of four kinds would be installed in Dhaka. “One of these four kinds will work as face detector. These cameras will be connected to the Crime Data Management System database,” he said.
“Whenever the camera will catch a wanted criminal it will alert the central command, which will make it possible for us to quickly arrest the person,” the police officer added.
He explained that the four kinds of cameras were bullet cameras, long range camera, drone camera and check point camera. “We will be notified whenever anything happens,” he said.
The AIG said they can mark a specific place on the camera to identify certain persons. “We will get an alert whenever the blacklisted person arrives at the spot,” he added.
He said the cameras would make surveillance much easier.
“We often suffer from panic about bombs. The cameras will alert us about any abandoned objects,” the police officer said.
“We have to go through hours of CCTV footage whenever a car is involved in an accident or is used in crimes. But installing the cameras would solve the problem.
“The camera will identify the specific vehicle within a few seconds. This will make collecting information by analyzing video footage easy.”
He cited the 2015 Pohela Boishakh sexual assault on the Dhaka University campus.
“We had to watch thousands of footage. It took us three months to identify the correct footage. But if the cameras we plan to install are in operation, it will take merely five minutes,” he said. “It will be possible to know if the perpetrators were involved in other crimes in the past.”
Sources say the police administration planned to take the ‘Development of Dhaka City Digital Monitoring System’ project in 2015. Later, international tender was floated for verifying feasibility. Seventeen companies from as many countries took part. A Chinese company got the job. It submitted a report after nearly a year of survey.
This article was first published on Bangla Tribune
http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/dhaka/2017/11/29/police-dhaka-cctv-surveillance/
Jamal Uddin
Published at 05:43 PM November 29, 2017
Bigstock
16,000 surveillance cameras will be installed in Dhaka
Police have decided to set up closed-circuit cameras to look for criminals in Dhaka. The cameras, to be installed under the Development of Dhaka City Digital Monitoring project, will be linked to a police database and equipped with facial recognition.
They will quickly identify criminals and send pictures to the central command and nearby police stations. Policemen of the concerned police station will then move in to nab the criminal.
Police officials say crimes such as mugging and extortion are making residents of the capital feel insecure.
“It becomes difficult for police to identify the criminals. In many cases, it is impossible to identify the perpetrators,” Additional Inspector General (development) Gazi Mozammel Haque of Police Headquarters said. “CCTV and related technologies are being used worldwide to tackle these crimes.”
He said modern cities are under CCTV surveillance. “The surveillance is monitored from a central command centre in cities, which makes it possible for police to respond quickly,” he noted.
Mozammel said 16,000 surveillance cameras of four kinds would be installed in Dhaka. “One of these four kinds will work as face detector. These cameras will be connected to the Crime Data Management System database,” he said.
“Whenever the camera will catch a wanted criminal it will alert the central command, which will make it possible for us to quickly arrest the person,” the police officer added.
He explained that the four kinds of cameras were bullet cameras, long range camera, drone camera and check point camera. “We will be notified whenever anything happens,” he said.
The AIG said they can mark a specific place on the camera to identify certain persons. “We will get an alert whenever the blacklisted person arrives at the spot,” he added.
He said the cameras would make surveillance much easier.
“We often suffer from panic about bombs. The cameras will alert us about any abandoned objects,” the police officer said.
“We have to go through hours of CCTV footage whenever a car is involved in an accident or is used in crimes. But installing the cameras would solve the problem.
“The camera will identify the specific vehicle within a few seconds. This will make collecting information by analyzing video footage easy.”
He cited the 2015 Pohela Boishakh sexual assault on the Dhaka University campus.
“We had to watch thousands of footage. It took us three months to identify the correct footage. But if the cameras we plan to install are in operation, it will take merely five minutes,” he said. “It will be possible to know if the perpetrators were involved in other crimes in the past.”
Sources say the police administration planned to take the ‘Development of Dhaka City Digital Monitoring System’ project in 2015. Later, international tender was floated for verifying feasibility. Seventeen companies from as many countries took part. A Chinese company got the job. It submitted a report after nearly a year of survey.
This article was first published on Bangla Tribune
http://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/dhaka/2017/11/29/police-dhaka-cctv-surveillance/
