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Bengaluru’s advanced CCTV, ANPR and AI video analytics under the Safe City Project are quietly helping police across states crack cases, from murders to vehicle fraud, while boosting women’s public safety.
Bengaluru’s Safe City Project has quietly grown into a powerful tool for law enforcement across India. Built around a network of high-resolution CCTV cameras, AI-enabled video analytics, Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR), real-time monitoring and emergency response links, the system does more than watch, it helps police act, sometimes across state borders.
The technology recently played a decisive role in several investigations. In one case, Maharashtra police were stuck with just three vehicle numbers. Bengaluru’s ANPR historical records showed those vehicles moving through eight monitored locations. Using those traces, teams activated real-time alerts at key junctions. Coordinated live monitoring between Maharashtra and Bengaluru led to the arrest of four suspects and recovery of the vehicles.
In another example, Kerala police tracked a stolen car detected by Bengaluru’s ANPR at multiple locations as it moved toward Mysuru. The tracking information enabled Kerala officers to intercept the vehicle and arrest the suspect along with the recovered car.
Behind these successes are the system’s core pieces: high-resolution cameras that feed AI video analytics, an ANPR module that reads and logs number plates, a live monitoring setup for immediate alerts, emergency response coordination and data analytics platforms that let investigators mine historical movement patterns. Together they create timely leads and actionable intelligence.
The Safe City Project also has an explicit social goal: to make public spaces safer for women and girls. It aims to prevent and reduce gender-based violence and harassment in public places by improving urban infrastructure and giving law enforcement faster, better information. The Empowered Committee under the Nirbhaya Fund has approved Safe City projects in eight selected cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Lucknow.
