Trichy police boost surveillance with speed dome camera-mounted van

Trichy Police became equipped with a mobile camera vehicle on Saturday to strengthen its surveillance in the city.
The surveillance of the new vehicle commenced from the famous Vaikunta Ekadeshi festival at Sri Ranganathaswamy temple in Srirangam.
The Tamil Nadu government has provided the vehicle mounted with speed dome cameras and monitors to six cities, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Salem, Tirupur and Trichy.
The vehicle, worth Rs35lakh, has been equipped with provisions to install six speed dome cameras at a time, three screens and air-conditioner. The purpose of the vehicle is to capture demonstrations and protests in congested areas through cameras and also to monitor them closely.

Both the intelligence section (IS) of city police and special branch (SB) of rural police usually record public events such as protests on a handy camera and use footages for their reference. To improve the accuracy of the surveillance, the government has introduced the vehicles in the six cities.
The high resolution speed dome cameras can rotate 360 degrees and capture movements at long distance. The policemen on board the vehicle monitor the captured movements on the screens. In case of any suspected movements, they can immediately alert the police. The storage capacity of the device is four terabytes.



Capturing the crowd for Vaikunta Ekadesi festival has been the first assignment for the new vehicle. The vehicle will be out on surveillance regularly, particularly in commercial areas.
Prior to the new vehicle, Trichy city police had designed such a vehicle on their own with the provision to mount one speed dome camera. With that vehicle also in use, the new one has given a boost to police surveillance in the city.