HYDERABAD: Extra than 50 per cent of police stations within the exclaim at the side of three police commissionerates – Hyderabad, Cyberabad, and Rachakonda – own now not installed CCTVs as per the Supreme Court docket directions and ministry of dwelling affairs (MHA) guidelines.
Sources acknowledged the police officers were unable to retain a staunch budget for set up of CCTV cameras inner police stations. Though some police stations are equipped with CCTVs, they’re now not functioning correctly as a result of non-maintenance.
A couple of months within the past, a Dalit lady, Mariyamma, was once dropped at the Addagudur police house in connection with a theft case in Yadadri district where the police allegedly careworn the girl who at closing died in police custody.
The police officers, who investigated the case, submitted a verbalize declaring that the CCTVs installed all thru the police house were now not functioning. In an identical intention, the Atmakur (S) police of Suryapet district allegedly assaulted a tribal man all thru the police house. In the identical police house, no CCTV camera was once installed.
Out of 700-uncommon police stations at the side of law and expose and location visitors within the exclaim, more than 300 police stations haven’t any CCTV camera installed as per the MHA guidelines and the Supreme Court docket orders.
In Hyderabad, Rachakonda and Cyberabad, police officers proposed to install CCTVs in all law and expose police stations. However, the initiative is at a snail’s tempo as a result of loads of causes and absence of funds.
A senior police officer acknowledged that they had given directions to all district unit officers to take measures for installing CCTV cameras. In some areas, at the side of the newly-fashioned districts, the superintendents of police (SPs) had taken measures and at the moment would install CCTVs within the bulk of police stations, he acknowledged. The exclaim police technology unit was once requested to prepare an estimation of the payment for the set up of CCTV cameras in all police stations.
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