Plan for 5,000 cameras watching Mumbai is put on pause
An ambitious electronic surveillance plan for Mumbai proposed by the city police shortly after 26/11 has been indefinitely delayed with the Maharashtra Government rejecting an offer from the Government-run Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd and looking afresh for bids.
On January 9 this year, as first reported by The Indian Express, the Mumbai Police, under then Commissioner Hasan Gafoor, proposed to the state Home Department a citywide 5,000-camera closed circuit television (CCTV) network, linked to monitors in the control room at police headquarters. Its objective: round-the-clock vigil at the airport, train and bus stations, malls, hotels, cinemas, even shoreline shantytowns like the fishermen’s colony where the Lashkar terrorists landed last year.
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On January 9 this year, as first reported by The Indian Express, the Mumbai Police, under then Commissioner Hasan Gafoor, proposed to the state Home Department a citywide 5,000-camera closed circuit television (CCTV) network, linked to monitors in the control room at police headquarters. Its objective: round-the-clock vigil at the airport, train and bus stations, malls, hotels, cinemas, even shoreline shantytowns like the fishermen’s colony where the Lashkar terrorists landed last year.
To read the full article, click here...
To read the ePaper, visit: http://epaper.indianexpress.com
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