The National Police Service(NPS) will soon finalise the installation of a total of 1,800 surveillance cameras in Nairobi and Mombasa to help in fight crime.
Some 210 police officers have been selected to undergo an intensive training to manage the Nairobi command and control centre. Already, the first batch of 94 police officers have started the training.
The director in charge of the centre, Mr Francis Gachina, says Nairobi will be under the surveillance of 1,500 cameras while Mombasa will have 300. He said before the end of this month, over 600 surveillance cameras will have been installed at strategic points in the city ready for official launch.
He said 230 motor vehicle number plate recognition cameras will be mounted at strategic areas in Nairobi County to capture number plates of stolen or carjacked vehicles together with those involved in traffic offences . “If such suspected vehicles pass through those areas, an alarm will sound at the command and control centre for easy recovery or tracing,” he said.
The command and control centre will be linked to radios which will be operated by officers stationed at various places within the county to urgently respond to any emergency as soon as it is detected.
Other surveillance cameras like those installed by the Nairobi Metropolis will be linked to the centre for a coordinated surveillance of the city and its environs.
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