Odisha CM inaugurates unified command control centre to improve policing | Bhubaneswar News
BHUBANESWAR: Policing in the capital got a major boost with the establishment of a unified command and control centre (UCCC) to control and investigate crimes with the help of IT solutions. Chief minister Naveen Patnaik inaugurated the IT platform on the occasion of the 16th raising day ceremony of the commissionerate police on Tuesday.
“In this glorious journey of 16 years, The commissionerate police has grown substantially.I am delighted to inaugurate the unified command and control centre and launch “e- Abedan” app. This will make the organisation more robust and help the police become more people friendly,” the chief minister said.
According to police commissioner Saumendra Priyadarsi, UCCC will support the seamless unification of various public safety elements like incident management, emergency response system, criminal tracking and official record management. The system will have surveillance related features like facial recognition system, video summarization, crowd estimation and management and detection of abandoned objects.
A key feature of the technology is integration of the cameras of communities, private establishments, including residential units with the UCCC to enable the cops to quickly access citizens’ cameras without any hassle during investigation of crimes.
According to Sanjib Kumar Dash, managing director of VL Access India, which executed the project, said UCCC will have surveillance related features like AI-enabled facial recognition system, video summarization, crowd estimation and management and detection of abandoned objects.
Sources said at least 800 CCTV cameras in Bhubaneswar, 400 in Cuttack and 300 community (private) cameras have been integrated with the setup. Using the technology, police can locate wanted criminals and details of vehicles used in crimes in quick time.
“Until now, police were scanning the CCTV footage of each camera to look for a vehicle involved in crime. Now, the UCCC system will automatically raise an alert if the same vehicle is captured in any camera,” said Dash.
Police said using the technology of video summarization systems, they can quickly scan through video data to find suspicious or potentially criminal aspects. The system can analyse all the recorded video files and provide the cops with summarization video for quick review and investigation thereby reducing viewing time considerably, police sources said.
The UCCC has a crowd estimation video intelligence solution to allow the police to estimate the crowd density within the camera view in sensitive areas like assembly, Naveen Niwas and Raj Bhawan. This is an important tool for understanding crowd movement and management for security. The system will raise an alert if the crowd density within a camera view is above a certain threshold.
“In this glorious journey of 16 years, The commissionerate police has grown substantially.I am delighted to inaugurate the unified command and control centre and launch “e- Abedan” app. This will make the organisation more robust and help the police become more people friendly,” the chief minister said.
According to police commissioner Saumendra Priyadarsi, UCCC will support the seamless unification of various public safety elements like incident management, emergency response system, criminal tracking and official record management. The system will have surveillance related features like facial recognition system, video summarization, crowd estimation and management and detection of abandoned objects.
A key feature of the technology is integration of the cameras of communities, private establishments, including residential units with the UCCC to enable the cops to quickly access citizens’ cameras without any hassle during investigation of crimes.
According to Sanjib Kumar Dash, managing director of VL Access India, which executed the project, said UCCC will have surveillance related features like AI-enabled facial recognition system, video summarization, crowd estimation and management and detection of abandoned objects.
Sources said at least 800 CCTV cameras in Bhubaneswar, 400 in Cuttack and 300 community (private) cameras have been integrated with the setup. Using the technology, police can locate wanted criminals and details of vehicles used in crimes in quick time.
“Until now, police were scanning the CCTV footage of each camera to look for a vehicle involved in crime. Now, the UCCC system will automatically raise an alert if the same vehicle is captured in any camera,” said Dash.
Police said using the technology of video summarization systems, they can quickly scan through video data to find suspicious or potentially criminal aspects. The system can analyse all the recorded video files and provide the cops with summarization video for quick review and investigation thereby reducing viewing time considerably, police sources said.
The UCCC has a crowd estimation video intelligence solution to allow the police to estimate the crowd density within the camera view in sensitive areas like assembly, Naveen Niwas and Raj Bhawan. This is an important tool for understanding crowd movement and management for security. The system will raise an alert if the crowd density within a camera view is above a certain threshold.