residents applaud the city police directive that requires apartments to install cctvs to increase security when supriya s found her parked car badly dented and no sign of the perpetrator at an apartment complex that she had visited she had little hope of recovering damages but as luck would have it the apartment complex had functional surveillance cameras at strategic locations which helped her not just figure out the culprit a lady driving a small hatchback but also the time when she came and left the apartment using the time stamp on the video supriya narrowed down the list of suspects from the visitors log there were only two entries for visitors to the apartment between 9 am and 10 am and both were guests of the same person i got him to identify the family from the video footage says supriya who after several phone calls and negotiations got the lady to shell out a substantial amount to repair her car if there was no surveillance footage i would have never been able to find out what had happened as no eye witnesses came forward she adds supriya is now among the lucky few who have been able to make the most of a bangalore police directive that requires all apartments to install cctvs at strategic points including the entry exit basement lobby driveway etc actor j karthik who lives in an apartment is all for increased security with the help of technology irrespective of the number of actual security personnel that an apartment complex hires it is impossible for them to keep track of everything happening especially if it is a community of over 2000 families in such large communities it is also not possible to know everyone check their credentials or keep track of who the visitors are sometimes visitors may not make proper entries in the guest log or residents themselves may be up to no good in the common areas of the apartment surveillance cameras come in handy there says karthik actress kavya shettty echoes this and says i live in an apartment in which we have been given an option to see the surveillance footage from the main gate on our television screens so if there is a visitor for me and the security guard calls up to check if i want to entertain that person i can actually see and verify if the person is really who he or she claims to be that eliminates the risk of letting strangers or people trying to pass off fake identities from making it all the way to your doorstep the actress adds that seeing the cameras at strategic locations such as the lifts lobbies and the common entrance gives her a sense of added security but just having cameras is not enough adds karthik the cameras should be stateoftheart high definition models with maximum zoom that will help law enforcers with facial recognition of people or number plates of vehicles involved in any