Only 3 states in India have at least one camera in each police station: Report

New Delhi: Despite the Supreme Court ruling which mandated CCTV cameras in all police stations, one in every three police stations do not have even a single camera, a report has found.
The report, which also analyses the police workforce in the country, claimed while the force has grown by 32 per cent between 2010 and 2020, the share of women is only a “meagre 10.5 per cent” and 41 per cent police stations across India do not have women help desks.
The India Justice Report, ‘Police: Improvements, Shortfalls and National Trends- An analysis of Data on Police Organisation 2021’, said 5,396 of the total 17,233 police stations in the country do not have a single CCTV camera, and only Odisha, Telangana and Puducherry have all their police stations equipped with at least one camera.
According to the report, only one of the 894 police stations in Rajasthan – the seventh largest state by population – has CCTV cameras installed in its premises, while Manipur, Ladakh and Lakshadweep have none, the report said.
“In its 2021 report, the Data on Police Organisation shows that one in three of the 17,233 police stations do not have a single CCTV camera. Only three states/UTs (Odisha, Telangana and Puducherry) have at least one CCTV in all police stations. Four states/UTs (Rajasthan, Manipur, Ladakh, Lakshadweep) have reported less than 1% police stations with CCTV cameras,” it stated.
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