Coimbatore City Police Commissioner A. Saravana Sundar at a press conference on Tuesday.
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The Coimbatore City Police will add 1,400 surveillance cameras across the city for crime prevention besides improving visible policing, said Commissioner A. Saravana Sundar on Tuesday (November 4, 2025).
The new cameras to be installed will cover entry and exits of vacant lands frequented by anti-social elements, similar to the ones near Brindhavan Nagar close to Coimbatore airport, where a 20-year-old college student was abducted and gang-raped on the night of November 2.
The city has 700 road-facing cameras installed by the police at present. Mr. Sundar said that many road-facing cameras installed by private individuals are defunct, and he appealed to them to rectify the same.
“All beat officers patrol open grounds and areas identified as hotspots of crimes, accidents and brawls in the evening every day. Hurt cases in the city decreased compared to last year due to routine patrolling. We will increase our presence everywhere in the days to come,” said Mr. Sundar during a press briefing on the arrest of the accused in the gang rape.
According to him, beat patrol officers had visited Brindhavan Nagar road on the day of the crime. However, the crime took place on a deserted plot of land on the side of a mud road connecting Brindhavan Nagar and SIHS Colony.
The city police have 59 beat patrol (two-wheeler) and 25 four-wheeler patrol vehicles, all fitted with GPS. The Peelamedu police, under whose jurisdiction the gang-rape took place, have five beat patrols and two four-wheeler patrols.
Mr. Sundar added that instructions have been given to the Peelamedu police to cover Brindhavan Nagar – SIHS Colony road every night.
Published – November 04, 2025 07:28 pm IST
