All city police stations to be equipped with 15 CCTV cameras

AHMEDABAD: The state government on Monday informed

Gujarat high court

that all 47 city police stations would be equipped with 15

CCTV

cameras and their quality would also be improved.

The police department ensured the HC that the up-gradation work would be completed within one month.

A PIL in this regard was filed after two cloth merchants complained of custodial torture in city crime branch in 2011. Following this incident, the HC ordered in 2012 to bring all police stations under CCTV surveillance. However, the city crime branch was among the last police stations to be equipped with CCTV camera.

After installation of CCTV, petitioner Prakash Kapadia demanded that the state government had agreed to install 8-10 cameras in small police stations and 15 cameras in other police stations including those existing in Ahmedabad. But the number of cameras installed was less in number and the video quality was also very poor. The department had ensured the court that the problem would be redressed.

The HC is to take up further hearing on this issue in November.