chennai live tracking a hitandrun suspect or mobile phone snatcher using cctv cameras is going to be easy as the city police has opened an integrated command and control centre at the city police commissioners office in egmorethe command centre will get feeds from 4008 cctv cameras installed at 1336 locations beamed on a digital light processing wall around 1240 cameras at 414 locations will be linked soon after the cameras are installedafter inaugurating the centre set up under chennai safe city project at a cost of rs 170crore city police commissioner shankar jiwal said this is one of the milestones for us and is going to be a game changer in maintaining law and order in the cityadditional commissioner of police prem anand sinha said we have identified 750 key locations prone to have demonstrations protests and are sensitive to crime and also see frequent vvip movements camera feed from these spots will be stored permanently in the cloud platforms so that they can be retrieved anytimehe said the cameras linked using optical fibre are run using artificial intelligence and can automatically detect and alert sudden gathering of people an abandoned bag or a fight chain or mobile snatchingthe cameras can also detect the number plates of the vehicles jiwal this will help us to track a suspicious vehicle for instance if we are informed about a robbery the 20 policemen who will monitor the video wall round the clock will feed in the suspects vehicle number into the system the software will track down the vehicle in the city and will give an alertit can also identify a faulty cctv camera within seconds so that steps can be taken to repair it another 3000 plus cctv cameras will also be installed using the mega city project that is underway after the inauguration both the software will be integrated and linked together to yield the best results said prem anand sinhathe police have also planned for a trial run in the coming week we will monitor for any practical difficulties in a weeklong run and will analyse and fix the glitches if any like false positives we will check if any cameras are detecting and giving us false alerts like tracking of people who walk or run oddly on the street said the police commissioner shankar jiwal