Following the sexual assault and murder of three minor girls in Cuffe Parade since November 2011, the police are now fixing surveillance cameras in the locality to thwart more incidents. In the latest gruesome incident, the body of a two year-old girl was found floating in the sea on April 19.
The thickly populated Ambedkar Nagar slum will now be under electronic surveillance, as five surveillance cameras are expected to be operational from today. The police expect that the cameras will help them keep tabs on suspicious activities in the area.
An officer from the Cuffe Parade police station said that all surveillance cameras have 360 degrees night vision up to 50 meters. They also possess automatic zooming facility, which will help get clear footage.
One of the cameras has been fixed a few meters away from the police station, on the first floor of a structure. The camera’s recorder will be placed in the house of a local named Khurshid Ahmed, who owns a cloth shop nearby.
Apart from the spot near the police station, one surveillance camera each will be put up near the Backbay bus depot, Veej Bhawan, Badhwar Park slums and Ganesh Murti Nagar. All cameras have a recording capacity of a month, an engineer who was fixing one of the cameras on Monday told HT.
With the probe not moving ahead, the police are still interrogating suspects from the area and have conducted DNA profiling tests of 785 suspects so far.