The Sylhet City Corporation authorities have taken a step to set up a total of 150 closed-circuit cameras at 35 main points in the city in a bid to ensure the citizen’s security and address traffic congestion in the city. Tender will be invited soon to start the work of installing the CC cameras that is expected to be completed within the next three months, the SCC officials said.
The Sylhet Nagar Bhaban officials and Sylhet Metropolitan Police said views to be caught by the cameras would play an important role in checking the increasing crimes and violence in the city.
The SMP additional commissioner, SM Rokan Uddin, said it would be possible to mitigate the city traffic congestion through monitoring unauthorised and random parking of vehicles through the cameras.
It will also prevent the floating vendors from encroaching on the city footpaths, he observed.
‘The law-enforcing agency’s competence will be enhanced through this project as identifying the miscreants will be easier,’ the SMP commissioner Nibas Chandra Majhi, said.
The Nagar Bhaban officials said the proposed project would be funded and implemented by the city corporation, but the entire system would be operated by the metropolitan police.
Initially a total of 150 CC cameras would be installed at 35 main points in the city and the other spots would be brought under the project gradually, the officials said.
The SCC chief executive engineer, Nur Azizur Rahman, said as par the project plan, a control room would be set up at the SMP headquarter from where views of the main key installations and busy traffic intersections in the city could be seen.
The SCC mayor, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, said because of insufficient fund of the city corporation, the project would be funded by the commercial institutions and expatriate businesspersons of the city.
‘Nagar Bhaban will regularly watch over the CC camera system, though it will be operated by the metropolitan police,’ the mayor added.
The administrations concerned decided to set up the CC cameras in the city’s main points following the big robbery incident at the Al Baraka Jewelers at Nehar Market in Purba Zindabazar area on September 4.
-With New Age input
