HYDERABAD: Mini command-and-control centres armed with equipment to track down criminals, monitor traffic flow and reach out to people in distress will come up all over the state by the year-end, director general of police M. Mahender Reddy said on Wednesday after inaugurating a ‘Miniature Command and Control Centre’ at the city police headquarters in Basheerbagh.
“This centre will help police personnel understand the various skills that will form part of the main command-and-control centre. At the same time, those providing the technology can make necessary improvements from these trials in the city,” said Mr. Reddy.
The police aim to make the main command-and-control centre coming up at Banjara Hills functional from day one itself. “Prevention and detection of crime, traffic management, law and order maintenance emerging from the centre will be useful to other government departments too,” he said.
A ‘Technology Fusion Centre’ inaugurated on Wednesday comprises of video surveillance security command centre and a traffic command centre. Facial recognition analytics, an emergency response unit, a social monitoring unit, traffic signal management unit and traffic enforcement units are the other departments at the hub.
“The main objective is to prevent crime. Crime history of a particular area will be displayed on the tab of the patrolling parties when police officers go to a particular area. This way, the constable will have on-hand data of criminals,” he said.
Mr Reddy said that around 1.66 lakh cameras have been installed in the city. In next three years, a total of 10 lakh cameras would be installed in Hyderabad city, Rachakonda and Cyberabad commissionerates.
