As of now, police reach a scene of occurrence within five minutes of an emergency call landing at the control room. The new facility, for which work will start in March, will reduce response time to 2-3 minutes, said commissioner Shankar Jiwal. Trained police manning a centralised control room spread over 4,000sqft will live monitor multiple locations on a video wall.
As part of the Safe City project, Chennai will get an additional 5,000 cameras and install them at 2,000 strategic locations such as women’s colleges, girls’ school and places that witness large gathering of women.
Live feed from these cameras will be linked to the centralised control room. Repeated and frantic waving of hands or unusual and hurried running in public places would be picked up by these cameras. Once activated, the live feed would pop up at the control room which would automatically alert police or patrol team closest to the location concerned.
“Police would reach the spot in the least response time,” said Jiwal.
The computer lab and electronic tools available with the metro police as of now are jaded and are in need of upgrades. The city police is also constrained by the fact that they have to send digital and electronic evidence to the cyber lab in Hyderabad for opinion and validation. This, too, will change with the arrival of the new building, which is slated to have a full-fledged and advanced cyber lab. It can process any evidence and throw results within hours.
Apart from this, the Chennai intelligent transport management system will also come up in the new building and would be monitored jointly by transport and police personnel.
Once completed, the city police headquarters will be a twin-tower linked by an inter-connecting walkway on the fourth floor, where the control room is to come up. All officers housed in the facilities can rush to the control room in case of an emergency. The building also complies with the highest green building requirements like sustainable architecture and design, water conservation, energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality.
As the building has been designed like lotus petals, airflow and sunlight penetration will be ample, thereby reducing energy consumption. Used water will be entirely recycled, and the material used for construction would maintain the room temperature even if air-conditioners are on. These are as per the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) norms.
Private architect firm Arkie Atelier Design India has been engaged to design and monitor the construction of the building and the team has conducted soil, UV and stability tests on the northern side of the commissioner’s office campus. The final design will be handed over to Tamil Nadu Police Housing Corporation for tender.
“It will be an intelligent and green building, that would raise the policing and overall city security by several notches,” said Commissioner Jiwal.
Source: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/twin-towers-of-vepery-to-help-guard-chennai/articleshow/89008686.cms
