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Bhubaneswar, Oct 8: Although several CCTV cameras have been installed at the city railway station, the police have failed to keep track of criminals entering the city.
According to sources, the pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras were installed at strategic locations of the railway station and they are not of help in detecting crimes.
“At least 20 PTZ cameras and 60 fixed cameras are installed at the railway station. The fixed cameras record the footage of a particular location 24X7 and the PTZ cameras record the footage in a rotational manner and do not help much in detecting crimes,” the sources said.
The government railway police (GRP) officials admitted that the PTZ cameras were not of much help in detecting crimes.
The GRP officials said they faced difficulties in investigating the case in which the body of an employee of Cuttack-based Archita Films and Pramila Films was recovered. Victim Kulamani Mishra’s body was found in a car parked inside the Bhubaneswar railway station earlier this year.
The body was found in the rear seat of the car (OR05AC1737) in a suspicious condition February 2.
“The PTZ cameras are not helping us much in maintaining law and order at the railway station. We have written to the general manager and the divisional railway manager of the East Coast Railway (ECoR) and have urged them to replace the existing PTZ cameras with high quality fixed cameras, but in vain,” GRP inspector-in-charge Saubhagya Kumar Swain told Orissa POST.
“The officials of ECoR have, however, said the cameras are installed for maintaining smooth passage of the passengers on the platforms and that they are not meant to detect crimes. But we have urged them to install more high quality fixed cameras,” he said.
Meanwhile, the GRP office here is also under the CCTV surveillance. CCTV cameras have been installed outside the police station, in front of the lock-up.
Inspector-in-charge can now see every development taking inside and outside the police station.
