THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: In tune with the Supreme Court order, police have finalized preparations for covering all police stations in the state, including lock-ups and interrogation rooms, under closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance round the clock, which is expected to have a deterrent effect over of police excesses inside police stations.
Police will install 12 cameras each in all the 520 police stations in the state. Cameras will be installed at the entrance, exit, main gate, lock-ups, corridor/lobby, reception area, outside washroom, duty officer’s room, inspector’s room, sub-inspector’s room and backside of the station.
In the state, CCTV surveillance system has been put in place in 274 police stations, which were done in 2018 with two cameras each in a station. Also, some district headquarters already have equipment for remote monitoring. All these will be integrated into the upcoming total monitoring system. New cameras being installed are internet protocol based with a wide dynamic range facility for better and clearer coverage of areas covered by it. In addition to the 520 cameras, as many as 100 will be additionally procured to be maintained as reserve cameras.
These cameras will not only telecast the area they are covering at the district police headquarters, but will also store the feed in an encrypted form that can be accessed only by the respective district police chief.
Police had floated tender inviting proposals from various companies in which eight companies participated. It is reliably learnt that Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL), a central public sector undertaking, won the bid. The proposal for handing over the task to TCIL has been forwarded to the government, and clearance is awaited. Once the government clears the proposal, the work is expected to be completed in three months.
The state has reported several cases of police excesses in recent times, the latest ones being custodial deaths of Kolahalamedu native Rajkumar in Nedumkandam police station in Idukki and Varapuzha native SR Sreejith at Varapuzha police station in Ernakulam,
An SC bench, led by RF Nariman had on December 2, 2020, in the Paramvir Singh Saini vs Baljit Singh case, ordered all states and UTs to ensure CCTV in all police stations. SC also ordered that CCTV systems that have to be installed must be equipped with night vision and necessarily consist of audio and video footage. Cameras must then be installed with such recording systems so that the data stored thereon shall be preserved for 18 months.
Police department sources said that the department will also come up with instructions that if anyone tries to tamper with the cameras, or any cameras found switched off or concealed to cover up for any illegal actions or third-degree tactics, the responsibility will be purely on the person concerned, and the onus will be on that person to prove his or her innocence.
Police will install 12 cameras each in all the 520 police stations in the state. Cameras will be installed at the entrance, exit, main gate, lock-ups, corridor/lobby, reception area, outside washroom, duty officer’s room, inspector’s room, sub-inspector’s room and backside of the station.
In the state, CCTV surveillance system has been put in place in 274 police stations, which were done in 2018 with two cameras each in a station. Also, some district headquarters already have equipment for remote monitoring. All these will be integrated into the upcoming total monitoring system. New cameras being installed are internet protocol based with a wide dynamic range facility for better and clearer coverage of areas covered by it. In addition to the 520 cameras, as many as 100 will be additionally procured to be maintained as reserve cameras.
These cameras will not only telecast the area they are covering at the district police headquarters, but will also store the feed in an encrypted form that can be accessed only by the respective district police chief.
Police had floated tender inviting proposals from various companies in which eight companies participated. It is reliably learnt that Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL), a central public sector undertaking, won the bid. The proposal for handing over the task to TCIL has been forwarded to the government, and clearance is awaited. Once the government clears the proposal, the work is expected to be completed in three months.
The state has reported several cases of police excesses in recent times, the latest ones being custodial deaths of Kolahalamedu native Rajkumar in Nedumkandam police station in Idukki and Varapuzha native SR Sreejith at Varapuzha police station in Ernakulam,
An SC bench, led by RF Nariman had on December 2, 2020, in the Paramvir Singh Saini vs Baljit Singh case, ordered all states and UTs to ensure CCTV in all police stations. SC also ordered that CCTV systems that have to be installed must be equipped with night vision and necessarily consist of audio and video footage. Cameras must then be installed with such recording systems so that the data stored thereon shall be preserved for 18 months.
Police department sources said that the department will also come up with instructions that if anyone tries to tamper with the cameras, or any cameras found switched off or concealed to cover up for any illegal actions or third-degree tactics, the responsibility will be purely on the person concerned, and the onus will be on that person to prove his or her innocence.
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