Bangkok: BMA plans big increase in CCTV coverage after women's protection group campaign

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Bangkok: BMA plans big increase in CCTV coverage after women's protection group campaign

 

 

More than 3,000 new CCTV cameras will be installed in Bangkok after a group that exists to protect women from sexual attack started a campaign. 

 

The "Safe Cities for Women" group had made a survey and isolated 611 areas of concern for women under their "First Pin" project. 

 

The locations were in Bangkok and surrounding areas and included places that were not well maintained, dark areas where there was not sufficient or broken lighting, dead ends and narrow walkways, quiet stretches and places with no signage well away from police stations. 

 

The Bangkok Metropolitan Authority said they had been working hard to ensure that the city was safe.

 

Silapasuay Raweesaengsoon said that danger spots had been marked for action, liaison had taken place with the metropolitan police and other authorities and lights would be repaired in conjunction with the electrical authorities. 

 

Regarding CCTV she said that work had taken place on 3,263 cameras and that a budget for 2020 would see 3,342 more cameras installed. 

 

The cameras are linked to police stations and the BMA. 

 

The BMA would work with "Safe Cities for Women" in deciding where best to install the cameras. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

 

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[Vacuum]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The "Safe Cities for Women" group had made a survey and isolated 611 areas of concern for women under their "First Pin" project.

They should do the same for men, and not only in BKK.

[mok199]

Thai police are so very vigilant...zzzzzzzzzzzz

[30la]

You can install 100,000 CCTV, but it doesn't make any sense if you don't do any maintenance!

[Prairieboy]

9 minutes ago, 30la said:

You can install 100,000 CCTV, but it doesn't make any sense if you don't do any maintenance!

Or if the personnel tasked to monitor them are asleep or on their smart phones watching Thai soaps!

 

[worgeordie]

Will they be working or dummies, 

regards Worgeordie

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

Regarding CCTV she said that work had taken place on 3,263 cameras and that a budget for 2020 would see 3,342 more cameras installed. 

That's all well and good, but Thailand has a bad history of installing them then letting them rot in situ.

[holy cow cm]

AI just like China here we come. Guess I may be wearing a Helmet 24/7 now.

[Redline]

Try police patrols and maintenance on the cameras.

[Chazar]

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Will they be working or dummies, 

regards Worgeordie

Cameras or  the  Police?  suggest  both

[Krataiboy]

A pathetic excuse for journalism, more full of holes than a collander.

 

Not a shred of evidence is presented to justify the cost (not stated, natch) of thousands more cameras to keep tabs on a mostly law-abiding population.

 

Nor is a single fact or figure proffered to indicate the frequency of attacks in any of the 611 so-called "areas of concern". 

 

One suspects this is another lame excuse for ramping up mass surveillance under the guise of protecting the "weaker sex" - most of whom are, thankfully, smart enough to avoid high-risk locations.

 

The upshot will be more Plods sitting glued to video monitors instead of scaring off would-be criminals by patrolling the mean streets the authorities claim to be so concerned about.

 

 

 

Edited November 28, 2019 by Krataiboy