Pattaya: RTP's "new year gift" to the people and tourists - more CCTV!

[webfact]

Pattaya: RTP's "new year gift" to the people and tourists - more CCTV!

 

Picture: Siam Chon News

 

Pattaya's infamously broken down CCTV network is set for an upgrade. And the new cameras, run by the cops themselves, are set to revolutionize policing.

 

In what Siam Chon News described as a New Year's gift from new RTP chief Gen Suwat Chaengyodsuk, Pattaya looks set to get 200 new cameras within a month. 

 

This compares with Bangkok that is due to get 9,000. 

 

Lt-Gen Weera Jiraweera said that it was high time centers of economic activity and big cities like Pattaya had better CCTV. 

 

The cameras at the resort will be controlled 24/7 by the police. They will be able to access images from CCTV on their mobile phones while out on the beat. 

 

Picture: Siam Chon News

 

This means that they will be able to see things in real time and more easily apprehend criminals fleeing the scene.

 

This will all lead to better policing and better protection for the public and tourists. 

 

Bangkok will get 9,000 cameras at a cost of 30 million baht (INN said this would be spread over 5,000 locations).

 

There is no budget for Pattaya yet but joint ventures will hopefully see 124 crime ridden places covered with 200 new cameras. 

 

Chonburi authorities will be helping out.

 

There are also plans for more police booths so that the public don't need to go to police stations to report crime. 

 

Thaivisa notes that previous stories in the Thai media have indicated that around half of Pattaya's 2000-2500 CCTV cameras are broken. 

 

Sources: Siam Chon News | INN

 

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[jacko45k]

Oh come on, I don't expect the police will be any better at maintenance.

Edited December 30, 2020 by jacko45k

[bluesofa]

7 minutes ago, webfact said:

The cameras at the resort will be controlled 24/7 by the police. They will be able to access images from CCTV on their mobile phones while out on the beat.

'out on the beat'

[jacko45k]

33 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

'out on the beat'

So 'out on the beat' actually means sitting at a table on Walking St with ones face stuck to a mobile phone.... nothing new then!

Edited December 30, 2020 by jacko45k

[bluesofa]

Just now, jacko45k said:

34 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

'out on the beat'

So ;out on the beat' actually means sitting at a table on Walking St with ones face stuck to a mobile phone.... nothing new then!

Or perhaps it means in a disco or bar with a very loud bass?

[Surelynot]

I hope they have fitted the very latest ones where  the resolution is so poor you can't make out any faces or number plates.....failing that they need to be positioned so you are looking down from a great height and only see the tops of peoples heads.

[tingtong]

more things to buy to adopt following the chinese big brothers....

 

if it must be a camera, should be a mandatory body-cam for every police officers....the most crime infested group of ppl in the country.

 

 

 

[PatOngo]

Oh happy happy, there'll be dancin' in the street!

[bluesofa]

4 minutes ago, PatOngo said:

Oh happy happy, there'll be dancin' in the street!

Then there will prosecutions for 'dancing without an entertainment licence'

[PatOngo]

1 minute ago, bluesofa said:

Then there will prosecutions for 'dancing without an entertainment licence'

Image if they caught bent cops grafting the public! ????

[Phuketshrew]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

Bangkok will get 9,000 cameras at a cost of 30 million baht

3,300 baht each for cameras that are probably available for less than 1,000 baht. Someone's on a nice little earner.

[Justgrazing]

If that's Batman on the right who's robbin' ..

Edited December 30, 2020 by Justgrazing
Sp

[bluesofa]

4 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

If that's Batman on the right who robbin' ..

It must be Kaiser Bill in the middle?

[animalmagic]

17 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Image if they caught bent cops grafting the public! ????

"The cameras at the resort will be controlled 24/7 by the police. "

[jobsworth]

Does anybody know the app to access the cameras

and the user name and password?

You see if the police can do this so can anybody else.

I also heard that the system would include facial recognition.

 

 

Edited December 31, 2020 by jobsworth
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[jacko45k]

Just now, jobsworth said:

Does anybody know the app to access the cameras

and the user name and password?

You see if the police can do this so can anybody else.

 

It is only in the talking about phase at the moment, there is a good bit more talking about to come then bidding etc..... might never happen.

[bluesofa]

17 minutes ago, jobsworth said:

Does anybody know the app to access the cameras

and the user name and password?

You see if the police can do this so can anybody else.

I also heard that the system would include facial recognition.

Even though it's not confirmed as going ahead yet, we all know the password will be 123456

[DefaultName]

I can hear the conversation now;

P; You go through red light, you pay.

Me; No I didn't, it was green.

P; You pay now!

Me; Check CCTV please.

P; Go!

 

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[bluesofa]

12 minutes ago, DefaultName said:

I can hear the conversation now;

P; You go through red light, you pay.

Me; No I didn't, it was green.

P; You pay now!

Me; Check CCTV please.

P; Go!

 

????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

Oh don't! That reminds me of a conversation years ago when riding my motorcycle through Bangkok:

P: You drive over bridge. Motorcyc cannot.

Me: I didn't. I drove on the road at ground level.

P: You drive over bridge. Motorcyc cannot.

Me: I didn't. I drove on the road at ground level.

P: You drive over bridge. Motorcyc cannot.

Me: I didn't.

P: You drive over bridge. Motorcyc cannot.

Me: I didn't.

P: You drive over bridge. Motorcyc cannot. You go pay fine at police station.

Me: I'll give you 100 Baht instead.

P: OK.

 

[bluesofa]

21 hours ago, PatOngo said:

21 hours ago, bluesofa said:

Then there will prosecutions for 'dancing without an entertainment licence'

Image if they caught bent cops grafting the public! 

I bet they're looking for software that will automatically blur out anyone in a police uniform.

[Burma Bill]

I thought the New Year in Thailand is 2564 - not 1984!

[Benmart]

On 12/30/2020 at 1:13 PM, bluesofa said:

'out on the beat'

I would love to see an annual report to the public, complete with "beat maps", criminal activity statistics by neighborhood, crime solving rates, traffic citation statistics, budget and expenditures,  etc. Community oriented policing, officers responding to take reports at the scene and mobile units are also on the wish list that will never be filled.

[Don Aleman]

Odd as I have always considered a " GIFT" as something, owned or bought given by one, or a group, to another individual/group. In Thailand Government "gifts" to it's citizens are bought/paid for with the CITIZEN'S money  !