Another million CCTVs for Bangkok

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Another million CCTVs for Bangkok

Published: 6 Sep 2012 at 14.03
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One million more closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras will be installed all over the capital city to improve public safety, Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Kamronwit Thoopkrachang said on Thursday.

Photo by Surapol Promsaka na Sakolnakorn

Pol Lt-Gen Kamronwit said this would be carried out under the "Miracle Eyes" project aimed at using security cameras for crime prevention and suppression.

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pete
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Discussion 16 : 07 Sep 2012 at 09.0316
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"They will be connected to the CCTV control centre at the Metropolitan Police headquarters and at 88 city police stations"
Oh come on! 11,200+ monitors in a police station? The mind boggles.
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Discussion 15 : 07 Sep 2012 at 07.2115
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"The security cameras will be set up at important government installations such as Government House, parliament, residences of important persons, business establishments and in residential areas."

I would have thought important persons can afford to install a CCTV system on their residences by themselves, the same goes for business establishments. If they get every single kilometer of road in Bangkok under a camera that would be fine and might eventually help in analyzing what has already happened.
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Discussion 14 : 07 Sep 2012 at 06.1414
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Sloppy, and poorly researched article. Bangkok Post needs to lift their game.
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Discussion 13 : 06 Sep 2012 at 22.5713
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Even if the one million cameras is a correct amount, which is hard to believe, it doesn't really matter. The rich will still go free as seen recently with the Praewa Van deaths and probably with the Red Bull Kid killing of a policeman on a motorcycle. These cameras will only put the poor into jail.
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Discussion 12 : 06 Sep 2012 at 21.4912
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It does not really matter if there are 1 thousand or 1 million cameras if they don’t work or are disabled.
If in 2010 just some of the cameras around Ratchaprasong would have worked then the arsonists and terrorists could have been in jail for a long time. But the bad guys disabled or destroyed these cameras.
So if more cameras are installed then the bad guys need some more time to disable the cameras, but I guess that will be the only difference. We know already now that any camera which records anything important and some rich and influential person is involved then somehow that video will disappear or the camera did not work or whatever.
So what’s the point of all these cameras – except some commission for the buyers?
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Discussion 11 : 06 Sep 2012 at 21.2511
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Anyone going to monitor these as they don't monitor the ones they have that work.
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Discussion 10 : 06 Sep 2012 at 19.3810
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How many will be real?
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meme
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Discussion 9 : 06 Sep 2012 at 18.439
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Don't worry, just another little 'white lie' from the regime.
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Discussion 8 : 06 Sep 2012 at 17.578
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When they say 'a million' they mean 25,000.

Compare the numbers of Red Shirts predicted and those that actually show up.
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Discussion 7 : 06 Sep 2012 at 17.137
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It is obvious that one million cameras is a total fantasy, or poor reporting. And how many of the existing ones actually work? Several years ago they tried to use phone lines to regulate the traffic lights instead of doing it from the bizarre and antiquated police boxes, and it was abandoned because the poor infrastructure couldn't cope. How will that same infastructure handle 1 million videos?
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