Cops to snoop on violators

By SNV Sudhir

Visakhapatnam, Jan 1, 2012: Now an offender cannot just go scot-free from the watchful eyes of surveillance cameras and alert police personnel who monitor key junctions across the city round-the-clock sitting at the integrated control room.

As a New Year initiative, city police recently lau-nched an integrated traffic control room that connects surveillance cameras, which has three months data back up facility, installed at 19 key junctions in various parts of the city.

This control room is different from the regular control rooms that every town and city have. Recently, police were successful in cracking a case where an unknown person opened fire in the air at the railway station and also traced missing schoolchildren with the help of surveillance cameras.

Applying the same concept, police staff at the integrated control room will, round-the-clock, monitor data from the surveillance cameras, and pass on necessary information and inputs to police standing at the next junction accor-ding to the moves of an offender.

Signal jumpers and traffic rules offenders can also be booked effectively with the help of the new system,, added a senior police official.

The city witnessed around 396 deaths and 1,298 were injured in road accidents during 2011.