CCTV System To Curb Crime Will Be Extended Nationwide
Plans to use closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in Kuala Lumpur to prevent crime will be extended nationwide if the approach proved effective, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.
The Prime Minister said the agency responsible to enforce the system in collaboration with local authorities would monitor effectiveness of the CCTV functions in preventing crime in areas where the programme has been implemented.
In welcoming the idea to install CCTVs, he said, useful and beneficial electronic gadgets were crucial to the people, particularly in the current multimedia era.
"Good. Good. We also want to try out these electronic eyes. Our policemen are insufficient...now we have electronic eyes.
"If CCTVs prove effective and practical, what's wrong we use them throughout the country," he asked.
**** It is actually a great idea to have CCTV. Given the 'motivated' state of some of our cops there is a better chance of preventing crime with these contraptions than our policemen on the beat or sleeeping at the police stations nationwide.
As usual our problems will only surface at the procuring, implementation and monitoring stage. To outfit the nation with CCTVs is a very expensive proposition. Someone has to be 'selected' to deliver the equipment which will cost in the millions and millions of ringgit. There has to be a complicated tender exercise, to choose the 'most appropriate' candidate, taking into account so many unknowns and 'push and pull' factors. After that comes the cumbersome task of seeing if the goods delivered and the services rendered are up to par. (To write more on the tender process and the quality of service expected may be construed as anti-national and or seditious and or misinformation that may damage the economy. Therefore please draw your own conclusions on what may possibly transpire).
Another serious problem I can envisage is the objections of Zainudddin Maidin, Darth Vader of the information darkside, who would go ballistic if the CCTVs show the real extent of crime in the country and if the media were to report it. He would prefer if crime were to continue to proceed at the present rate without any hoohaa, rather than it being actively addressed and God forbid actually reported in detail!!
Otherwise I think it is a capital idea and should be given a speedy go-ahead by the government.
The Prime Minister said the agency responsible to enforce the system in collaboration with local authorities would monitor effectiveness of the CCTV functions in preventing crime in areas where the programme has been implemented.
In welcoming the idea to install CCTVs, he said, useful and beneficial electronic gadgets were crucial to the people, particularly in the current multimedia era.
"Good. Good. We also want to try out these electronic eyes. Our policemen are insufficient...now we have electronic eyes.
"If CCTVs prove effective and practical, what's wrong we use them throughout the country," he asked.
**** It is actually a great idea to have CCTV. Given the 'motivated' state of some of our cops there is a better chance of preventing crime with these contraptions than our policemen on the beat or sleeeping at the police stations nationwide.
As usual our problems will only surface at the procuring, implementation and monitoring stage. To outfit the nation with CCTVs is a very expensive proposition. Someone has to be 'selected' to deliver the equipment which will cost in the millions and millions of ringgit. There has to be a complicated tender exercise, to choose the 'most appropriate' candidate, taking into account so many unknowns and 'push and pull' factors. After that comes the cumbersome task of seeing if the goods delivered and the services rendered are up to par. (To write more on the tender process and the quality of service expected may be construed as anti-national and or seditious and or misinformation that may damage the economy. Therefore please draw your own conclusions on what may possibly transpire).
Another serious problem I can envisage is the objections of Zainudddin Maidin, Darth Vader of the information darkside, who would go ballistic if the CCTVs show the real extent of crime in the country and if the media were to report it. He would prefer if crime were to continue to proceed at the present rate without any hoohaa, rather than it being actively addressed and God forbid actually reported in detail!!
Otherwise I think it is a capital idea and should be given a speedy go-ahead by the government.
posted by The Malaysian. at 8/06/2006 12:30:00 AM
2 Comments:
Quite serious matter like 1984, can they spy on the public? End of freedom man!
It's not about the CCTVs and hi-tech surveillance, it's about people being responsible and uniformed men taking their jobs seriously. Surveillance equipments can deter crime but it cannot stop a crime from being commited or when a life is at risk.
??>>Bureaucrats>>PF>>CCTVs>>Crime
Stop delegating surveillance work to CCTVs to spare the coppers from actual work.
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