Mayor insists Pattaya CCTV cameras ‘real’

PATTAYA: -- Despite the broken cables and dark lights spotted on many of the city’s closed-circuit television cameras, Mayor Itthiphol Kunplome insists the city isn’t putting up fake cameras and is actively investing in the security system.

Several hundred million baht has been spent since 2006 to install 350 real-time cameras around the Pattaya area to monitor traffic and crime. But Itthiphol admits many of the cameras have fallen into disrepair due to poor maintenance and that cynics couldn’t be faulted for thinking the city was installing “dummy” cameras instead of the real thing.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2011-10-07

Its a pity they are not used on the beach scammers the whole beach is covered by them but The world class city of Pattaya allow scams on a daily basis with all this good gear for collecting evidence.

The money would have been better spent fixing the drains....

"Several hundred million has been spent " unfortunatly ,very little of it went on the cctv

Several hundred million baht?

Ok, let's say 400 million / 350 cameras = 1.14 million baht per camera?

Somebody hit the jackpot with this one.