The Chittagong Metropolitan Police yesterday launched three new online-based tech based services for the port city dwellers as well as for maintaining law and order situation in the commercial capital of the country.
The services include Digital Surveillance System, CMP Mobile Application and Vehicle Theft and Recovery Database, CMP Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam said, while inaugurating the services at the conference room of CMP headquarters in the morning.
Additional Commissioner (Crime and Operation) Banaz Kumar Majumder, Additional Commissioner (Traffic, Finance and Administration) AKM Shahidur Rahman, Deputy Commissioners, Additional Deputy Commissioners, Assistant Commissioners and officers-in-charge of different police stations of CMP were present at the programme.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Babul Akhter of Detective Branch of CMP, also the spokesman of CMP, described different aspects of the three services at the programme.
He said three types of cameras – Pan Tilt Zoom (PTZ), Face Detector and 1200 TBL – have already been setup on 17 spots of the port city under Digital Surveillance System while the CMP would install more cameras on 37 spots within next two to three months.
“A total of 56 cameras were installed at 17 points while 111 will be installed at 37 other points,” he also said.
PTZ cameras can track autos and detect any object within 100 metres at night while it can also be operated by android mobile phone sets.
Face Detector Camera could take many peoples’ faces at a time which would help police find out criminals easily, the ADC said, adding that 1200 TBL cameras could take an overall view of a place and the snaps could also be examined by zooming in.
The CMP spokesman said any android mobile phone could download the CMP’s application from Google Play Store from where people could get every kind of answers of their desired queries.
With the help of newly launched services, people who lost their vehicles from theft or mugging could get information about their vehicles' recovery through mobile phone SMS, said the ADC.
If the owner of the stolen vehicle enters all required information into the database, the database system will preserve that information and send them to all police stations across the country while the vehicle owner will be informed as soon as his vehicle is recovered, he said.
The CMP commissioner said they were trying their best to provide citizen services for people in the port city.
