A total of 12 close circuit cameras have been set up in Sylhet city from Zindabazar point to Chouhatta to improve the city’s law and order situation.
Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) Mayor Ariful Haque inaugurated the CC cameras yesterday under a pilot project. He said eight more CC cameras would be set up in the city after Eid-ul-Fitr, adding that the whole city would be monitored by more CC cameras in future.
He said the objective of the project was to ensure peoples’ safety.
SCC sources said the CC cameras would initially be monitored by the SCC authorities. The cameras are capable of storing at least two months of footage and the pilot project was worth Tk5.40 lakh, they added.
