Installation of CCTV cameras at Shuklaphanta

Kathmandu: Shuklaphanta municipality has installed CCTV cameras in 12 sensitive areas.

The municipality installed CCTV to check criminal activities and reduce road accidents. The aim of the installation is also to keep law and order intact. The surveillance cameras have been installed in three market forest committees, Jhalari and Kaluwapur areas along the East-West Highway of the municipality.

Chief Administrative Officer of the municipality Tikendra Raj Bhatta said that camera installation was done to reduce theft, robbery, and other criminal activities increasing in market areas and resolve traffic problems.

He said security-sensitive areas were identified first before installation. A total of 12 CCTVs were installed in different areas.

'The CCTV placement would substantially help the police to investigate crimes', he said. The control of the CCTV camera has been kept at the Area Police Office, Jhalari.

Municipality Mayor Rana Bahadur Mahara said that they had a plan to gradually install CCTV cameras in other security-sensitive areas of the municipal geography.

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