KMP to bring city under digital monitoring system

Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) has completed all preparations to set up internet protocol camera (IPC) at 72 important points in the city by December 2015.

KMP also have taken steps to distribute "modern secret video devices" and "special detective sunglasses" among the officials with a view to curbing crimes in the city.

A total of four IPCs have been set up at Picture Palace Intersection while other four IPCs have been set up in the city's Sonadanga bus terminal area, officials said.

The remaining IPCs will be set up at Shibbari, Moylapota, Gollamari, Royal Intersections, Rail Station, Launch Terminal, Rupsha Ferryghat, Daulatpur, Khalishpur, Khan Jahan Ali, Shiromony, Zero Point and other important places in the city, the sources said.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of KMP Moniruzzaman Mithu told the news agency that KMP would set up 72 IPCs in the city and distribute a large number of "modern secret video devices" and "special detective sunglasses" among the officials to keep close watch on the city.

"As part of digital monitoring, the detective and special branch officials of KMP will get spy sunglasses. The officials will take video by this sunglasses," he said.

They will also get pen cameras, vehicle searching mirrors, hand metal explosive detectors and counterfeit currency detecting machines, he added.

While talking to the news agency, KMP Commissioner Nibash Chandra Majhi said crimes would be reduced and criminals would be detected if they could keep all important places under digital monitoring system.

He said that a control room would also be opened to monitor the technologies.