L-G asks Delhi Police to roll out ‘Safe City Project’ by August

According to L-G House officials, Saxena has issued instructions to incorporate AI-based applications to ensure real-time crowd assessment, picking up behavioural traits and discrepancies with capability of immediately notifying centralised command and control centres at the Delhi Police Headquarters, policing districts and police stations.

The Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Women and Child Development have approved the project under the Nirbhaya Fund. The project seeks to prevent and curb crimes against women in public places through a surveillance system, real-time video-based analytics, emergency response system along with dedicated emergency vehicles. “There will be a quick and effective emergency response system to address needs of women in distress, 24×7 monitoring of public areas… through more than 10,500 CCTVs,” L-G House officials said.

Under the project, “professionally equipped police personnel” will reach women in distress, and there will be increased and demonstrative police visibility in public places through the installation of CCTVs and deployment of dedicated women-safety Mobile Police or PRAKHAR vans.