Big Brother is Watching: Criminals in Varanasi Can't Escape Being Under Watch with This Technology
News 18Movement by criminals is set to become riskier with a new network of CCTV cameras being installed in Varanasi, including the automated facial recognition cameras. Under this project, 500km optical fibre was being laid to provide connectivity at 700 points of the city and all police stations are also being connected to the network. “The network will have 3,000 close circuit television cameras in 14 categories, including AFRS at 22 vital points,” said the chief executive officer of Smart City project and municipal commissioner, Gaurang Rathi. The system will be connected with police stations through the CCTNS, the countrywide database of suspects and people wanted for investigations will be accessible to identify or verify a person from various kinds of photo inputs from a digital image file to a video source. SSP Amit Pathak said that with the arrival of advanced surveillance system, which will improve the process of tracing or locating suspected persons or criminals for police, the required man power will be allocated from department at the new command centre to run it efficiently after getting proper training in this regard.
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