CCTV Cameras Project in Civil Lines residential area under the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme

Spread over an area of 1483 sq. kms. with a population of

over 1.8 crores, Delhi is amongst the most populous cities in the

world with a density of approximately 6000 persons per sq. km.

With the city’s growth outpacing planned development, policing in

Delhi has become an onerous and ever expanding responsibility.

As policemen cannot always be present at all places, efforts of

community policing and appropriate usage of technology go a long

way to contribute towards making the city safe and secure.

Delhi Police has taken a number of community initiatives in the

past, prominent among which has been the Neighbourhood Watch

Scheme. In the traditional Neighbourhood Watch Scheme, the

residents of a particular area are called upon to come together and

through combined efforts take measures like tenant & servant

verification, verification of vendors, hiring of chowkidars, controlled

access to the locality through fixing of gates and installing safety

equipment like magic eye, door bell, anti auto theft devices etc.

The police in such schemes acts as a facilitator.

In the field of technology, Delhi Police has inter-alia been

using CCTV coverage of important market places and border

checkposts, duly funded by the government, for prevention and

detection of crimes. However, since requirement of CCTV cameras

in the city is very large, it was decided by the Delhi Police to

increase the scope of the concept of the Neighbourhood Watch

Scheme to include installation of CCTV cameras as well, wherever

the residential community is willing to take a lead in their area.

In this direction, the residents of the Civil Lines area in North

District have taken a giant stride and in association with Delhi Police

they have come forward to cover the entire Civil Lines residential

area through CCTV cameras. Their association named ‘Club Class’

has installed 67 cameras spread in 16 clusters and covering over

2000 households. These are quality mega-pixel cameras and with

recording facility at each cluster, these cameras will be further

connected through internet to provide viewing facility at any remote

locations including a monitoring station set up at Police Station Civil

Lines.

Sh. B.S. Bassi, Commissioner of Police, Delhi will be

inaugurating the CCTVs Camera Project of Civil Lines under the

Neighbourhood Watch Scheme of Delhi Police, in this first initiative

of its kind in a residential area, at a function organized by the

Residents Association ‘Club Class’ at Shah Auditorium, Civil Lines,

Delhi on Sunday, August 3, 2014 at 6.00 PM.