Hyderabad: While CCTV cameras are assisting the police in nabbing criminals, the police is using the Preventive Detention Act to neutralise hardcore criminals.
Hyderabad police commissioner M. Mahender Reddy told the media last Wednesday that the city had already achieved the goal to install one lakh CCTV cameras. “The city is on the top in safety. The government provided 10,000 CCTV cameras followed by 25,000 from the community CCTV programme, 75,000 from Nenu Saitam and 2,000 from MP and MLA funds. Now, many criminals, including interstate gangs, are afraid to commit crimes in Hyderabad city due to CCTV cameras. One functioning CCTV camera is equal to 100 constables,” he said.
Investigators from the city police successfully detected criminals in 210 cases in 2016 using CCTV footage.
Besides this, to control habitual criminals like chain-snatchers, the city police has been using the PD Act to detain them for a year. So far, the city police has detained 96 rowdy sheeters, 54 hardcore burglars, 108 chain-snatchers, about 20 cyber criminals and 654 other criminals.
Besides this, the city police detained sex business organisers, drug peddlers and illegal liquor manufacturers. Nigerians, interstate gangs from Maharashtra and the Bidar-based Irani gang members are among the detainees.
