Thailand's Yingluck Calls For C C T V Surveillance System Integration In Deep South

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PM calls for CCTV surveillance system integration in Deep South
Pimnara Pradubwit,
Pares Lohasan
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday called a meeting on the southern unrest and pressed for the integration of the CCTV surveillance system for better and more efficient coverage, a security official said.

Following the one-hour meeting, Paradorn Pattanatabut, secretary-general of the National Security Council, said the CCTV system integration would dovetail with Deputy PM Chalerm Yoobumrung's suggestion to repair roads and bridges to prevent bombings.

Security agencies would work with local authorities, so the integrated CCTV system now being installed by police should be completed soon. The system would not only cover the deep South but would also link to Bangkok.

What the premiere told the Thai representatives to discuss with separatist groups at their meeting on April 29 was within his freedom as the team leader, he said without going into specifics. However, the reduction of the violent attacks in the region would be on the agenda. He didn't know yet if there would be more separatist groups joining this next round.

in Pattani's Yaring district, a bomb planted by suspected insurgents to attack police went off. An innocent passer-by lost both legs and three pickup trucks were damaged.

Following the report of the explosion at a garbage pile 50 meters away from a police checkpoint on Taloh Kapo Beach Road, police found an 80 centimetre-wide and 15cm-deep hole with shrapnel all over the place.

The wounded man was identified as Mayasim Salae, 42, who was rushed to Yaring Hospital and transferred to Pattani Hospital due to the severity of his injuries.

Police found that Mayasim, a village defence volunteer with the job of keeping the beach clean and orderly, had noticed a suspicious object with wires in the garbage pile so he went closer to look and reportedly poked at it, accidently detonating it.

Earlier Yusoh Matiyoh, 55, also a Tambon Taloh Kapor villager, was shot dead after he reportedly had escaped three murder attempts. Yusoh was fired at twice by two men on a motorbike while tending his vegetable patch in Ban Beuna.

Police found that someone had tried to shoot him three times before and Yusoh was once wanted by a national security warrant until he surrendered to Thai authorities to profess his innocence.

A source also reported that Pattani's Sai Buri, Kapor, Thung Yang Daeng and Ma Yor districts saw some 10 road signs spray painted in red with the words, "The dialogue is a lie, Patani will certainly gain independence" or "Patani Independence".


-- The Nation 2013-04-19

[krisb]

Don't stop at the south. Put em in Bangkok and Pattaya also.

[Bellweather]

Don't stop at the south. Put em in Bangkok and Pattaya also.

but not where they can be reached and disabled unless they are the fale type installed in Bkk a year or so ago

[moe666]

PTP solution to end violence in the South? Way to go poppet.

[Pimay1]

Deputy PM Chalerm Yoobumrung's suggestion to repair roads and bridges to prevent bombings.

Where is the logic in this statement? How will road and bridge repair prevent bomings?

[bigbamboo]

Better make sure the contract is awarded to the company with the guns this time. Don't want the cameras shot to pieces again by the sore losers.

[arthurboy]

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Thursday called a meeting on the southern unrest and pressed for the integration of the CCTV surveillance system for better and more efficient coverage, a security official said.

And as the carnage continues, the PM is pressing for...blah, blah, blah, rather than ordering the numerous agencies and officials 'running' this fiasco to get their act together.

In Boston, the authorities have quickly released video and still footage of two suspects wanted in connection with Sunday's horrific bomb attack. The technology is not that difficult to manage, but it does require intensive man hours and people who know what they doing and looking for to identify possible suspects. It also requires solidly integrated liaison and cooperation between all responsible agencies to then use this evidence and take strong, decisive and accountable action.

The point is Yingluck, you have the technology - once the brown envelope has been agreed on and assuming it actually works - but your people don't have the will or capability to use it.

So, in essence, I conclude that it's utter uncaring, irresponsible and unaccountable incompetence on the authorities part.

The simple fact is that no one really gives a damn. Except, of course, the families and friends of the murdered and those who live in daily fear of dying.

[Songhua]

Deputy PM Chalerm Yoobumrung's suggestion to repair roads and bridges to prevent bombings.

Where is the logic in this statement? How will road and bridge repair prevent bomings?

Due to being under construction and slowing traffic for the next three years.

[fakename]

Does anyone think the separationist are going to sit idly by, while cameras are being installed? Soon, it will take half the army to guard the cameras. For some reason, most cctv cameras do not work in Thailand anyway. I can just picture, that when a man comes out to service a camera, there will be a surprise waiting for him, and soon, no one will come to do any service job.

[A Member]

Deputy PM Chalerm Yoobumrung's suggestion to repair roads and bridges to prevent bombings.

Where is the logic in this statement? How will road and bridge repair prevent bomings?

He can see the big picture and we mere mortals cannot, maybe we need to drink more ear medicine and join him on his higher plain

[LuckyLew]

What do insurgents in the South call CCTV ? ............................................... target practice

[Pimay1]

Deputy PM Chalerm Yoobumrung's suggestion to repair roads and bridges to prevent bombings.

Where is the logic in this statement? How will road and bridge repair prevent bomings?

He can see the big picture and we mere mortals cannot, maybe we need to drink more ear medicine and join him on his higher plain

Well I am doing my part every day but have not reached the higher plain yet.

[Yunla]

Did they ever recover the CCTV footage of Yingluck avoiding parliamentary meetings, to have secret business-meetings in hotel suites. I seem to remember those CCTV tapes went missing, of her and the (possibly) property-developers arriving at the off-the-record secret business meeting during her state-paid working time.

So Yingluck approves of CCTV when it applies to poor people in the South, but not when it interferes with her own shadowy schemes. Transparency has a long way to go in these parts. I wish I could say that some cameras in the South would fix the problems, but obviously having a real actual Prime Minister who is law-abiding and qualified to deal with national politics in a robust forward-thinking manner, would be a much more favorable long-lasting solution. Somebody perhaps who understands and has worked within the political sphere for decades and understands the cause/effect of the needless and horrific carnage occuring down South.

[Mudcrab]

Deputy PM Chalerm Yoobumrung's suggestion to repair roads and bridges to prevent bombings.

Where is the logic in this statement? How will road and bridge repair prevent bomings?

as a fiend of mine once said.....mechanical engineers build weapons....civil engineers build targets!!!!

there is no logic to Chalerm's statement