Over 3,000 CCTVs To Come Up In Rachakonda Commissionerate

Hyderabad: Over 3,000 CCTV cameras will be installed in Rachakonda Police Commissionerate in order to increase the electronic surveillance to prevent and detect crime. The initiative has been taken under community and government CCTV projects.

"CCTV Project has been undertaken with cooperation of community people in the Commissionerate area in 1,219 localities and so far 854 cameras have been installed and work is in progress in remaining areas," said Mahesh M Bhagwat, Rachakonda Police Commissioner.

"Accordingly government CCTV project is also under progress in which 2,234 CC cameras would be installed in different strategic locations in three phases," he added.

Rachkonda Commissionerate which was bifurcated from Cyberabad Commissionerate in June this year would have its new building over the next one year, Bhagwat said adding identification of land for construction of new Commissionerate building is in final stage.

Rachakonda Police Commissionerate website would be launched in January next year.

A total of 12,750 cases of various offences including dacoity, robbery, kidnappings and rapes were reported out of which 8,411 were detected during the year, he said.