CCTVs come handy for police to check parking

The CCTV cameras installed in the towns have come in handy for police department in controlling the haphazard traffic and illegal parking at road side in the towns in the district. As many as 400 CCTV cameras installed at various centre points in Nirmal, Adilabad,Mancherial, Bhainsa and Bellampalli in the Adilabad district of Telangana.

Recently, 75 high resolution CC TV cameras were installed at various locations and also entry and exit points in the Adilabad town and community CCTV controlling room was set up in the traffic police station.

A team comprising ASI and four constables were monitoring the cameras footage  on huge screen connected to the CCTV cameras at the control room round the clock in three shifts. These CCTV cameras record every movement in and around the location where installed.     

SP Dr Tarun Joshi said ‘the police monitoring the control room immediately communicate the information to the mobile or Rakshak parties to handle the situation if notice anything unwanted happening like traffic jams, or bike theft, bike racing chain snatching and accident or any illegally parked vehicle causing blocking the free flow of traffic’.

He said CCTV cameras which have night vision technology and will indirectly give security to one and all including the banks.

State government has realized the importance of the installation of CCTV cameras to control and prevent the crime and traffic jams and to identify the persons moving suspiciously and have supplied CCTVs to all the districts in the state.

Traffic jams have become regular phenomena at Amedkar chowk, Kisan chowk and Gandhi chowk due to illegal parking and pavements encroached upon by the shop owners in the Adilbad town. Petty businessman and road side vendors set up their business in the middle of the roads causing hug traffic jams.

Adilabad Municipal Chairperson Rangineni Manisha said ‘they were preparing an action plan to remove encroachments for free flow of traffic] and avoid inconvenience to the commuters and public in the Adilabad’.