The state also said that it would install additional 1,000 Close Circuit Cameras in addition to the 1,000 CCTV cameras already installed and activated by the state government in conjunction with the Federal Government, under the National Public Security Communication System, (NPSCS). The state Commissioner for Science and Technology, Mr Adebiyi Mabadeje, who made the disclosure, said the worked-radio/surveillance camera network project was a Public-Private initiative of the state government.
The 1,000 CCTV cameras already installed in some strategic parts of the state, he noted, are not enough to capture and record all the happenings in the state with over 21 million residents in the state.
He said: “The state is prepared to deploy additional 1,000 Close Circuit Television in the state in addition to the functional 1,000 already installed all over the state in conjunction with the Federal Government, under the National Public Security Communication System, (NPSCS).
He, however, added that the presence of the cameras was not an assurance that crimes would not be perpetrated in the state, saying it would rather make the jobs of the security easier in detecting and apprehending criminals. Mabadeje also disclosed that the Forensic Laboratory embarked upon by the state government would soon be completed to complement the law enforcement, criminal investigations and judiciary system in the state.
“The project when completed will assist the judiciary in the prosecution of the criminal cases by authenticating the evidence of the prosecutors to get conviction. This will also help reduce to the barest minimum, cases of unresolved crimes,” Mabadeje added.
Source: New Telegraph
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