The Kochi City Police have launched a three-month-long campaign, Operation Nireekshanam, to increase the number of CCTV cameras within the city limits to 2 lakhs besides introducing a grading system for resident’s associations based on security management.
The move assumes added significance in the wake of the gruesome murder in which the dead body of a youngster was found wrapped in a bedsheet and shoved into the duct of a 16th floor apartment in Edachira near Kakkanad. Police had observed that there was a lack of accountability on the part of the apartment complex concerned and communication gap with the police in alerting about the unusual activities and movement of strangers.
