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Hyderabad, November 11, 2020: KT Rama Rao, Telangana Minister for IT E & C, Municipal Administration & Urban Development, inaugurates India’s first and the most integrated Telangana State Police Public Safety Integrated Operations Centre here in Hyderabad at Gachibowli in the premises of Cyberabad Police Commissionerate on Wednesday. He also inaugurated Data Centre.
The Public Safety Integrated Operations Centre is located in two floors. The ground floor has operations with video walls for real-time monitoring, emergency response systems for dial 100 and Hawk-Eye App and the first floor is War room and Data Centre. It is the facility where 15000 CCTVs are monitored at simultaneously at a time
The new facility is developed using distributive technologies such as Scalable Video Platform, Big-Data Driven Insights & Scalable Data Lake, Computer Vision & Facial Recognition, IoT Integration & Data Correlation, Machine Learning—Recommendation Engine, Geo-spatial Analytics and Cyber Security.
Speaking on the occasion, Minister KT Rama Rao said, 30 years ago as I student when he came to city, like any other students of that age of 13 years, he was eagerly looking for additional holidays as schools used to be closed on account of disturbance by anti-social elements, communal violence and subsequent curfew. But that such situation no longer can be imagined, though many of the children may not like (he mentioned on lighter note). That is due to effective and efficient policing of the Telangana Police.
The Minister reminded 150 plus gathering the context in which the Telangana state was formed. The state had inherited the legacy of communal tensions, extremism. Several had apprehensions that there would be regionals conflicts, a lot of doubts and uncertainties. The state was formed amidst a lot of apprehensions. Thanks to police machinery, their painful efforts, all these apprehensions were resolved.
A survey has revealed that Hyderabad has 65% of total CCTVs set up in the country. The city has 5 lakh CCTVs. Which serve as a deterrent for offenders. In fact, the CM has mandated for ten lakh CCTVs. I am sure, police are on the job.
Director-General of Police, Telangana State M. Mahender Reddy said the Hyderabad Safe and Smart City Project is conceived with an objective for citizen-friendly, holistic, integrated and responsive CCTV based surveillance system for the cities of Hyderabad, Cyberabad and Rachakonda and to transform the traffic system from today’s technology into a safer, more efficient and demonstrable for the future. The project is aligned with vision of the Telangana police.
It provides real times situational intelligence through fusion of data. 15000 CCTVs can be viewed from a single place. It provides integrated view of law enforcement, Traffic and Emergency Services. It empowers the field officers, he said.
Mr JVS Ramakrishna, Head of the Strategy and Solutions at L&T Smart World, which is behind this project gave an overview of the project. He also gave a demonstration of how it works. At this Centre Integrated Operations is enabled through unified view of incident &and Emergency Management, Law & Order and Traffic Management functions. This benefits police in Preventive Policing, Patrolling based on historical Crime trends, unified incident response through correlation of CCTV crime, dial 100, Traffic Data, Quick Investigation through AI-based video analysis, facial recognition, video search, locational intelligence, junction engineering etc and others.
A MoU was signed between Telangana Police and ITES to train police in Cyber Security. The MoU was signed between Mr Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary and DGP Shri Mahender Reddy.
