A model approach to installing CCTV cameras within the city, which has been adopted by Surat, was found by Delhi Police officials to be impressive but difficult to implement in the national Capital. A high-level Delhi Police team, which had visited the city in Gujarat to study its CCTV system, said that replicating a model which has only 104 cameras would hardly do for Delhi where the number of CCTV cameras on its streets would soon be touching 9,000.
led by Special Commissioner of Police (Operations) Sundari Nanda, a Delhi Police team comprising DCP (Communication) Naved Mumtaz and Additional DCP (Communication) Satyawan Gautam had recently visited Surat to study the project and explore the scope of implementing it in the national capital. A report on the findings of the team will be submitted by Delhi Police to lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung.
The report say that in Surat, a total of 104 CCTV cameras have been installed at 26 strategic locations across the city as part of a unique project which has been undertaken under the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. “The project is commendable, but implementing a project of 104 CCTV cameras in a much larger city like Delhi... is difficult,” said a senior Delhi Police official.