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CCTV cameras, traffic display boards by June

Move to curb street crimes, traffic jam

Mukhlesur Rahman
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will set up 155 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras by next June at 59 points including all entry and exit ways of the city to check crimes.
Besides, it will install 31 electronic traffic message display boards at different intersections to ease the perennial traffic congestions on the city roads.
Over 90 percent work of installing these sophisticated instruments at a cost of around Tk 61 crore is almost complete, DMP sources said.
With the introduction of such modern devices the police control room will be known as C3S (Command, Control and Communication System).
DMP Commissioner Naim Ahmed told The Daily Star the existing police control room is
nothing but a telephone exchange while the new one will be a full-fledged police control room with the expertise of detecting locations of police vehicles in the city.
It will also be able to identify places of occurrences with the help of CCTV cameras and display necessary messages on the traffic message display board for drivers, he added.
The intersections where CCTV cameras will be installed include Mohakhali, Gulistan-1, and 2, Gabtali, Shyampur Munshi Khila, Abdullapur Check Post, Shanerpar, Sadarghat, Sharulia and Buriganga Bridge-1 and 2.
There will be four base stations across the city to receive data from CCTV cameras and the data will be sent to the high-powered base station set up at the control room.
The Automatic Vehicle Location System (AVLS) will add yet another new dimension to the police control room management helping it detect the locations of on-duty police vehicles.
A special device will be installed in police vehicles for theAVLS.
The DMP Commissioner said C3S would be capable of monitoring the performance of on-duty police teams at the places of occurrences.
Drivers can easily tome to know about the conditions of traffic movements on the roads they are plying their vehicles with the help of messages on the display boards and have necessaryguidelines.
Police sources said messages on the boards will be provided from the police control room and on-duty police men will be able to handle the traffic gridlock effectively with the help of the message.
/Xssistant Inspector General (AIG) Telecom of Police Mohammad Abdul Alim Mahmud said the AVLS would be very effective as the control room with its help can easily find the location of police vehicles and send them to the spot of occurrence immediately.
He said DMP is also going to introduce digital mapping of the city for the smooth and effective operation of those modem sophisticated devices and instruments.
Separate building for C3s, motor transport, mail police barrack and female police barrack will also be constructed, DMP sources said.
It also said the works of installing CCTVs, message display boards and construction of new buildings began in July2007. J