Tunapuna stakeholders say Project Eagle Eye has significantly decreased the incidence of crime in the district.
The collaboration between the police and the business community was formed some seven months ago, in response to the cry from businessmen that criminals had them under-siege.
00:00Assistant Commissioner of Police Rishi Singh acknowledges that the TTPS hasn't
00:05been 100% effective. We have a responsibility to deliver professional
00:12policing services to you all and I want to admit that we recognize that there
00:23have been areas in which the police service would have not fulfilled to the
00:31maximum on the mandate that we have. He says crime is multi-dimensional. We
00:37have violent crimes, you have property crimes with violence, property crimes
00:41without violence, you have public order crimes, regulatory crimes, traffic issues
00:48and so within the recognition of the dimensions of just those categories you
00:56would see that there are levels of persons within the community that engage
01:03in different types of those deviant behavior. And that's why police too must
01:10also be multi-dimensional and projects like Eagle Eye are of grave importance
01:17in terms of crime detection. And more and more because of citizens both
01:22reluctance which is driven by sometimes fear, sometimes a feeling of hopelessness
01:32they don't necessarily want to come forward to support in prosecutions
01:37generally. Project Eagle Eye through the recordings would offer the opportunity
01:47for us to revisit past crimes, present situations and future circumstances to
02:01create the opportunities for us to identify the perpetrators of crime. And
02:05if we were to judge the effectiveness of the project the developers were at hand.
02:10The detection within Tunafuna, anybody spoke about it? Okay, so the detection within Tunafuna has changed from one of the lowest to one of the highest in the country within the six to eight months that we have had the system installed. That is not simply due to the system but that is also due to the work done by Officer Bipat and the rest of the officers for taking what we have done.
02:35Taking what we have given them and working with it. Because having a bunch of cameras installed with no officers doing anything simply makes no sense. So we want to thank the officers.
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