Thoothukudi District Police get modern control room getting signals from state-of-the-art cameras; vehicles’ registration numbers, travellers can easily be identified

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District Collector and Superintendent of Police jointly inaugurating the Morden Control country   astatine  District Police bureau   successful  Thoothukudi connected  Tuesday.

District Collector and Superintendent of Police jointly inaugurating the Morden Control country astatine District Police bureau successful Thoothukudi connected Tuesday. | Photo Credit: N. RAJESH

A state-of-the-art power country that receives signals from the Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) and Varifocal Lens Cameras fitted astatine six places of the territory to grounds the registration numbers of vehicles moving astatine precocious velocity and place the travellers round-the-clock was inaugurated successful the District Police Office connected Tuesday.

In the beingness of Superintendent of Police Albert John and Additional Collector (Development) R. Aishwarya, District Collector K. Elambahavath inaugurated the technologically upgraded power country connected Tuesday.

As the constabulary person installed ANPR and Varifocal Lens Cameras astatine Kodangipatti, Vembar, Thottilovanpatti, Paruthikulam, Seydunganallur and Idaichivilai, each the places located connected the Thoothukudi district’s borderline with different neighbouring districts, the visuals received from these cameras tin beryllium monitored successful real-time successful the upgraded power country astatine the District Police Office.

With these precocious ANPR cameras, the constabulary tin get wide photos of registration fig plates of the vehicles zooming on the highways portion the law-enforcers tin zoom with clarity the visuals received from the Varifocal Lens cameras to place the radical travelling successful the vehicles moving adjacent astatine precocious speed.

“Since we’ve installed these cameras connected the important roads done which thousands of vehicles are entering and leaving the district, the constabulary tin person a implicit monitoring implicit these vehicles round-the-clock,” said Mr. Albert John.

Moreover, the power country volition besides show the question of constabulary vehicles, including the bikes and the four-wheelers fitted with GPS.

“If we get immoderate accusation oregon ailment from the nationalist astir an escaping vehicle, we’ll alert the constabulary patrol teams, which would unreserved to the spot oregon pursuit the fleeing vehicle. We tin show the patrol team’s question connected the unrecorded navigation representation successful the power room. Moreover, this power country volition beryllium the nervus centre for the messages being shared by the constabulary connected the tract done their wireless sets and different connection gadgets and instantly person visuals from the drones being utilized during the festivals and ample gatherings for taking due enactment for assemblage management,” Mr. Albert John explained.

In the adjacent phase, the Thoothukudi District Police person planned to instal the ANPR cameras astatine much places including the check-posts, important junctions of the district, accident-prone areas etc.

The cameras and the allied infrastructure person been incorporated astatine the outgo of ₹25 lakh released from the District Collector’s Mineral Resources Fund.

Published - December 16, 2025 05:57 p.m. IST

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