Muzaffarpur police plan to set up 56 CCTV cameras

Muzaffarpur: The district police have reminded the state home department to sanction an old proposal to set up close circuit television (CCTV) cameras at 56 strategic points in Muzaffarpur town at the earliest in order to control the increasing traffic and crime problems.
When asked, senior SP Ranjeet Kumar Mishra said on Tuesday the proposal had been sent to the state administration in November last year itself and now another request has been made to sanction the same because of imperative of the situation here.
The SSP said that, according to the plan, the footage of CCTV cameras would be stored for up to a month and the visuals would be monitored from the SSP office and police control room situated on the court campus. More CCTVs could later be set up in select jewellery shops, petrol pumps, banks and such places where bulk transactions are made. The private organizations would have to meet their own expenditure but it would be under the police network to oversee activities around them.
Traffic problem has enormously increased in the town and CCTV cameras would be helpful to a great extent to manage the situation by shifting police force from one place to another in the shortest possible time, said the SSP. Problems like eve-teasing and other such nuisances at public places in the town area can also be checked with the help of CCTVs, he added.