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Why Mumbai Police is finding it hard to crack crimes at night
Updated On: 08 November, 2018 11:01 AM IST | Mumbai | Diwakar Sharma
Crimes at night are becoming difficult to crack as number plates are washed out in CCTV footage by the strong headlights and tail lights
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Since the camera was blinded by lights, Powai police were unable to identify truck (circled) responsible for a hit-and-run in September
Come nighttime, and most of Mumbai's CCTV cameras are no better than a deer caught in the headlights. As soon as motorists switch on their headlamps or backlights, the cameras are blinded by the light. Thanks to this, city cops are having trouble solving night crimes, even those that have been captured on camera, since the image quality is very poor.
"The surveillance of vehicles is a big challenge when their headlamp or backlight is switched on, since the image noise [glare] foils the footage quality," said a police officer. Sharp-eyed detection teams of the Mumbai police instead try to solve night crimes based on a few "recognisable features" of vehicles captured in the CCTV footage.
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