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Hyderabad is world's 16th most surveilled city

  •   Fri, Jul 24 2020 08:33:45 AM

Hyderabad, Jul 24 (IANS): Hyderabad has been ranked as 16th in the top 20 most surveilled cities in the world.

With 3 lakh cameras for a population of over one crore or 29.99 cameras per 1,000 people, Hyderabad is the only city from India in the list released by Britain-based tech research firm Comparitech.

Hyderabad and London, which ranks third, are the only cities outside China in the list. With 119.57 cameras for 1,000 people, Taiyuan is at number one position while Wuxi ranks second with 92.14 cameras for 1,000 people. All other ranks are also held by Chinese cities.

London has 6,27,727 cameras for a population of over 93 lakh or 67.47 cameras per 1,000 people.

Telangana Director General of Police M. Mahender Reddy tweeted on Thursday to announce the recognition for Hyderabad. "Congratulations to all stakeholders. Firstly the communities for making the city a safer place to live in," he tweeted.

As part of efforts to leverage technology for effective policing, Hyderabad has been installing CCTV cameras for the last few years.

The DGP had announced last year 10 lakh CCTV cameras would be installed in the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) limits, covering three police commissionerates of Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda.
  

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  • vijay kumar, hyderabad

    Thu, Feb 04 2021

    Security has been a major area of concern for individual families, residential apartments, gated communities, business and scientific establishments. CCTV Surveillance Systems help in keeping a watch on movement of suspicious persons and intruders. In today's world, working couple are using CCTV Surveillance Systems to watch and monitor the work of housekeeping staff, and caretakers employed at home. Its a great initiative by the government to install and place CCTV Surveillance Cameras at all locations to stop crime. We at Brihaspathi technologies have an Innovation and deploying technology for effective surveillance management found expression as the installation of CCTVs at more than 10000 locations across India.

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