Title - Uttar Pradesh gears up to fix CCTV cameras inside trains

Lucknow: In a bid to ensure the safety of the railway passengers, the Uttar Pradesh Police is gearing up to install CCTV cameras in few special trains passing through Uttar Pradesh. The effort is initiated to lower down the criminal offense which occurs inside the trains.

“There is a proposal to install CCTV cameras in AC as well as general coaches of special trains for video recording,” says by the Director General of Police (DG) Railway Rizwan Ahmad.

We are also planning to install CCTV cameras at all important and over-crowded railway stations and all the SP’s of the Government Railway Police have been directed to take the assistance of authorities.

Under the ‘Vision Scheme’, CCTV cameras have been installed in Lucknow and Moradabad considering them as important and crowded stations and will be monitored by the section headquarters.

In his directives, he said that all the CCTV cameras installed must work properly.

The DG said they are also planning to paste stickers of phone numbers of GRP railway stations on the route in all coaches of trains passing through UP. So the persons in need can get help by calling the police. Similarly, railway control room numbers are also planned to be pasted.

Rizwan Ahmad has given instructions to the GRP that all the attendants and vendors verification must be checked and efficient action must be taken against the one found with unauthorized papers.

When the platforms are crowded and the incoming trains are halted at outer signals during dark, the possibility of crime increases and hence high-mast lights should be installed and more GRP personnel should be deployed.