Chittagong University (CU) authority has decided to install Close Circuit TV Camera and Internet Protocol Camera at key points of the campus in a bid to keep eye on it and to tighten security on the campus.
Vice-Chancellor of CU Professor Dr Iftekhar Uddin Chowdhury said “We have finalised a draft project over installation of CCTV and IP cameras on the campus and also discussed the matter with senior teachers of the university and superintendent of police in Chittagong.
“We will conduct a feasibility test over the project. Later on it will be discussed more effectively to fix the possible cost, fund collection and maintenance of the project as immediately as possible”, he said.
Campus sources said the issue had been discussed formally with the SP AKM Hafiz Akhtar during a courtesy call with CU VC on July 27. During the meeting Senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mosi Uddowla Reza of Hathazari Circle, Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mohammed Ismail of Hathazari police station, Ali CU proctor Azgar Chowdhury and senior teachers of CU were present.
SP Hafiz Akhtar told the Dhaka Tribune that he hVC about considering the CCTV or IP camera which would assist the university administration to run the campus smoothly”.
Police will also aid the CU administration to implement the project by giving technical or other support, SP Hafiz Akhtar said.
The project is not new for the Chittagong but first time for the CU history as police has installed around 32 IP cameras of Dhaka-Chittagong highway on Sitakunda upazila including Hathazari, Fatickchari and Patiya upazila.
If IP camera is installed in the campus area, police officials personally can be guided the campus police if any sudden unrest happened”, SP Hafiz Akhtar said.
University’s senior teachers Professor Khan Tawhid Osman who also a member a number of probe committees told the Dhaka Tribune that the probe body members after formation to find the reason in a clash or causality held between the political students’ organisations or others, have been facing difficulties to collect the clash related evidence while such kind of initiative would easy the whole process.
“Sometimes we personally requested the media or individuals or other sources seeking the footage or picture of clashes while CCTV network will make the process easy and hurry where students also feel secure”, he added.