Trafic monitoring system soon
A state-of-the-art monitoring system is to be set up in four major cities of Tamil Nadu, including this temple city, to regulate the ever increasing vehicular traffic. The system would be implemented within the next few months in the cities of Chennai, Tiruchirappalli, Madurai and Coimbatore at a cost of Rs four crore, police said here. The state government has already given the sanction for the project, under which high resolution monitoring cameras would be installed at important junctions. Micro-chips would be used to monitor patrol vehicles and satellite global positioning systems would be utilised to control movement of police officials, they said.The system would have TV monitors linked to cameras. The traffic police would be able to know the situation in various junctions by monitoring the same and also advice the people on the alternative routes in case of traffic jam on a particular road. Traffic violators could also be monitored using the cameras and notices would be sent to their homes, they said. It would also help monitor the movement of anti-social elements. Police would have the fingerprints of the criminals on their computer along with their photographs and if they were spotted by the cameras, they could be rounded up.
