Big commercial and business establishments in areas like Bund Garden and Camp would now have to set up closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras.
In the backdrop of the Mumbai bomb blasts, deputy commissioner of police (zone II), Raghunath Khaire, has issued a written request to prominent commercial and business establishments to install CCTV cameras. If the owner of the establishment doesn’t do so, the police would follow-up the issue regularly until it is done.
Khaire said, “We have requested them to set up CCTV cameras in appropriate places in their shops. There are some shops and malls that do have cameras, but we have come to know that some of the big commercial establishments still don’t use such gadgets.”
He added that the system is not costly.
There are seven police stations in zone II, including Bund Garden and Lashkar police stations. Most of the big establishments fall under the jurisdiction of these two police stations. While the former covers Koregaon Park and Pune Station, the latter has in its jurisdiction Mahatma Gandhi Road and Solapur Bazaar.
A police inspector attached to the Pune crime branch, on condition of anonymity, told DNA, “The commercial shop owners should install CCTV cameras for their safety. If they are not willing to do it, then we could take action against them.”
The police have surveyed the security of information technology (IT) units in Pimpri-Chinchwad. The deputy commissioner of police (zone III), Dnyaneshwar Chavan, told DNA, “We have briefed the IT units on security measures and also given them instructions. Our officers have personally visited and checked the security of the units.”
Chavan added that CCTV cameras are compulsory at lodgings and stern action would be taken against defaulters.
City cops keep eagle eye on Simi
Five organisations in the city have come under the scanner of the Pune police following Wednesday’s serial blasts in Mumbai.
Highly placed sources in the police stated on condition of anonymity that a section of cadres of the Muslim outfit, Students’ Islamist Movement in India (Simi) have joined these organisations.
“We are ascertaining the type of activities that are being carried out by these five organisations and the role played by the Simi cadres,” the sources told DNA.
However, the sources refused to divulge the identity of these organisations or state whether they were engaged in social or political activities.
After the Mumbai blasts, the Pune police carried out search operations in the houses of 45 suspected members of Simi and Indian Mujahideen (IM), who apparently were missing. The searches, carried out in central parts of the city and Kondhwa, continued late into the night.
