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In the light of increasing attacks on law enforcement personnel of Mumbai Police, especially the traffic policemen, and to bring down the number of offences, Mumbai traffic police is all set to receive body cams.
3-years ago, Maharashtra government had declared the provision of body cameras for the safety of traffic police personnel in the wake of the murder of a constable. The then BJP-led government's CM Devendra Fadnavis had launched a pilot project for this.
The Mumbai traffic department received 1,388 body cameras on Monday. The traffic authorities, who are yet to distribute the cameras to its men, said there are 34 traffic divisions across Mumbai and each division will be allocated at least 30 body cameras depending on the traffic load.
The cameras will be equipped with WiFi, GPS, bluetooth and night-vision, and will be light weight, dust and water resistant. They will be easy to handle and will be able to capture high resolution images. “The camera has 10 hours of battery life, and can store footage up to 10 hours,” said deputy commissioner of police (traffic) Nandkumar Thakur. The body cams are expected to come into force in the next two months.
At the end of every day, the recordings will be taken to the respective traffic division by policemen and stored. “They will be stored for a month and depending on the necessity, the videos will be stored further otherwise erased,” said Thakur.
Thakur said, “We are also planning live monitoring but it is costly and we are seeing whether the department can bear the cost.”
Officials added that apart from making use of these cameras against traffic violators, the police department will also use them during major events like agitation, riots, raids and corruption.
Source: freepressjournal.in, timesofindia.com, indianexpress.com
Written by Siddhant Sharma
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