DELHI has become the world’s No.1 city in terms of CCTV coverage per square kilometre, Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of the state, said on Friday (3).
Speaking to media persons in New Delhi, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader said, “As many as 2,75,000 CCTV cameras were installed across Delhi in the last seven years. These were installed in streets, lanes, colonies, RWS, schools and other places.
“Delhi has become the number one city in the world in having the maximum number of CCTV cameras per square kilometre. The survey was conducted in 150 cities across the world.”
“London comes to the second place with 1,138 CCTV cameras per square mile. So Delhi is far ahead of London, Singapore, and Paris. In India, Chennai comes second place in terms of CCTV cameras. And, Delhi has thrice as many cameras as Chennai has. We have 11 times more CCTV cameras installed in Delhi than in Mumbai,” the chief minister said.
Kejriwal said the safety situation for women has improved in Delhi since the installation of CCTV cameras. The police also get help from the devices in solving crimes as most of the cases are recorded in them, he added.
“We will further install 1,40,000 cameras in the city. Following this, Delhi will have 4,15,000 CCTV cameras,” the chief minister said.
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