ahmedabad right from the gruesome ryan international murder case of gurugram to the recent incident of garbage collectors themselves throwing solid waste near commercial establishments in ahmedabad the nearly ubiquitous cctvs see it all in cases like surats double murder case cctv footage provided the first crucial clue but how much of the footages running into terabytes tbs is important and how should it be utilized for optimum results stumps many raksha shakti university rsu recently concluded the first batch of digital video auditing course for police officers and personnel where the batch of 20 learnt different tricks to get the most out of what the cameras seekv ravi kumar director of institute of security sciences and management issm rsu said that the motive behind offering the course was to make the cctv audit a specialized job policing today is more and more relying on cctv footages thus the discipline needs better auditing and review techniques he said jainish shah resource person for the course said there are three basic rules government and private entities should follow better auditing better backup and better documentation for cctv footagesmultiple audits reveal that there are basic flaws such as quality placement angle of the camera its storage and how the footage is reviewed said shah he advised cloud storage so that the data can be retrieved even when digital video recorder dvr is stolenj k pandya acp control room of surat city police who was one of the participants said optimization of the cctv footage is always important for crime prevention and detection