Hyderabad, Nov. 11 -- Hyderabad City Police Commissioner V C Sajjanar on Tuesday monitored the polling process of the Jubilee Hills Assembly by-election from the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC), where real-time surveillance was carried out through drones and CCTV networks.
Sajjanar said the by-election was progressing in a peaceful manner, with strong security measures in place to ensure that voters could exercise their franchise freely. He stated that around 900 CCTV cameras were being used to monitor polling stations across the constituency.
For the first time in the country, drone technology has been deployed extensively for election surveillance, he said.
A total of 150 drone units have been pressed into service as per t...