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The scenic but treacherous ghat conception of Pollachi – Valparai Road that lacked surveillance cameras for years is present nether the ticker of the Coimbatore District (Rural) Police.
Surveillance cameras installed by the territory constabulary astatine each the 40 hairpin bends of the ghat conception are present streaming unrecorded visuals to the recently opened Master Command and Control Centre (MCCC) astatine the bureau of the Superintendent of Police.
Each hairpin crook has 2 cameras, facing ascending and descending vehicles. The constabulary tin show the question of vehicles and observe postulation blocks oregon accidents to instrumentality swift action.
The cameras were installed nether the enactment of erstwhile SP K. Karthikeyan, who was transferred and posted arsenic Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order), Tambaram, recently.
New SP Allatipalli Pavan Kumar Reddy has instructed the unit manning the MCCC to support adjacent ticker of the ghat conception to instrumentality proactive measures.
In bid to support the cameras from anti-social elements and chaotic animals, chiefly monkeys, they person been placed wrong metallic boxes.
Senior constabulary officers said that the cameras volition assistance the constabulary place vehicles progressive successful reckless driving and successful the detection of crimes. Visuals from the cameras volition besides assistance the constabulary ascertain reasons successful the lawsuit of accidents astatine hairpin bends.
On April 17, a van carrying tourists from Malappuram territory successful Kerala veered disconnected the 13th hairpin crook and rolled down to the ninth hairpin bend, sidesplitting 8 persons connected the spot. Two much passengers died aboriginal and lone 3 persons, including the van’s driver, survived the accident. Due to the deficiency of cameras astatine the spot backmost then, the constabulary oregon the Road Transport Authority could not ascertain the existent origin of the accident. Speeding astatine the hairpin crook was suspected arsenic the main reason.
