The Chief Minister of Telangana, will inaugurate the Police Command Control Centre (CCC), is on August 4. This Command centre will serve as Hyderabad’s “third eye.”
Features of the Police Command and Control Centre:
- The police will get access to the majority of locations throughout the state .
- All the credit would go to the 9.25 lakh cameras (approx.) that are connected to the Command and Control Centre.
- The Command and Control Centre is situated on Banjara Hills Road No. 12.
- It is a four-tower complex with 20 floors.
- Each floor has a built-up area of 5.5 lakh square feet.
- The double glass curtain wall technology in the towers boosts energy efficiency, thermal comfort, and acoustics.
- The building has a two-storey parking lot with a helipad on its roof.
- Tower A, stands on the left side of the centre,
- will house the Hyderabad police commissioner’s office as well as administrative divisions.
- Tower B is on the right. It will house state-level surveillance, which has access to every camera in Telangana.
- The She Teams, emergency response-related agencies, Hawk Eye assistance, and the traffic command centre will also be housed in the tower.
Unique in the country
The Command and Control centre, is first of its kind in the nation. It will help the police in connecting the operations of several units under one roof . It will function as a state-level multi-agency technological fusion centre.
Third eye
The CCC has come into being due to the vision of Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao. Hyderabad Police Commissioner C.V. Anand called the centre the “third eye” of the city police. Moreover, it will serve as a platform for crisis management, disaster management, and other significant emergency situations.
Various Facilities
In addition to this, there is an emergency response management system to help people in distress. Added to that, the CCC consists of a war room and a centre of excellence for operations monitoring and increasing staff capacity.
The Commissioner said that representatives from various government departments with a public focus will be present at the centre to encourage effective interaction and cooperation between governmental organisations.
Officials claim
According to Deccan Chronicle, officials claim that the Telangana Police now use technology as one of their most important force multipliers in their fight against crime. The officials claimed that these facilities can only be found only Singapore and New York. This is unique in the country.
“The tower has different chambers for DGP M. Mahendar Reddy, Home minister Mahmood Ali and other officials. On the seventh floor, there is a war room where meetings may be convened. Moreover, the Chief Minister can review the flood situation,from the Centre itself” Anand said.
Other facilities
Tower C has a multi-agency room and an auditorium, while Tower D will house other departments and data centres.
Meanwhile, there are speculations that the offices of the traffic police and Central Zone DCP could be shifted to the existing police commissioner’s office in Basheerbagh.
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