Chennai police deploy AI-based security network of 5,250 CCTV cameras at 1,750 locations

Commissioned under the Chennai Safe City Project, the AI-based software will use video analytics and will alert the Integrated Command and Control Centre for taking appropriate action even in case of SOS gestures made on the camera

The Greater Chennai Police Commissioner Shankar Jiwal on Friday inaugurated an integrated command and control centre (ICCC) under the Chennai Safe City Project (CSCP) on the premises of the Commissioner’s office in Vepery.

Under the project, 5,250 CCTV cameras are being installed at 1,750 key locations across Greater Chennai Police (GCP) limits and the live feeds from all such cameras will be monitored at this centre.