New Delhi: Delhi Police vehicles will soon get spy cameras to keep an eye on the city's streets -- and their own men too.
Faced with frequent riotous situations, police have decided the best way to monitor the capital from the control room would be through cameras that would be fitted on the roof of its fleet. The cameras will be connected to a server at the police headquarters and in the offices of all 11 district police heads.
To begin with, a revolving CCTV camera has been mounted on a Maruti Gypsy with the New Delhi district police. Two frontal cameras have been installed on the bar light of two police control room (PCR) vans in outer Delhi.
In the latter case, the camera is rotated manually.
"If things go well, cameras will come up on all the 1,000 PCR vans," Special Commissioner of Police T.N. Mohan told IANS. The electronic eyes will help Delhi Police in more ways than one, officers say.
