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No big deal. If it was for safety sake especially for these protesting times, why not? Bombs in the toilets, drug deals, sex....um...nevermind. The cameras were not pointed into the toilet areas. Go ahead and warn all users that these port-a-potties have surveillance. Go crap somewhere else if you want. Funny.

I agree.But,why are the cameras hidden?

Maybe not to be tampered with or keep the courageous criminal guessing?

Maybe later the notices could be posted without the need of the actual cameras? Because of course the government doesn't have enough money to equip them all. Placebo security port-a-potties?

Should consult with Mr. Toilet himself. But I believe he's quite busy 'running' for office.

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This is a good device for Thailand's growth. offer them as a franchise to the girls of the entertainment venues and freelance bars. Attach a credit card terminal and a cash dispenser - and the girls can set up these portables off the back of a pick up truck anytime anywhere. They can go mobile anywhere there is a protest, road blockage, tourists stranded at an airport or bus stop, long wait lines outside visa renewal locations..etc. If you want a short time peep show the unit , equipped with a window in - can be set up with coins. This can be the next cottage industry of Thailand.

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Concerning Thai males......not a big deal.

Concerning Thai Females.......If you've seen one, you've seen them all.coffee1.gif

Pretty insipid and inflammatory post. These types of comments shouldn't be tolerated. Blatant trolling. especially offensive to Thai people who are members or read TV and members with Thai wives. Show some respect. Try and be constructive Costa. Like if you agree..

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The Governor of BKK has no defence on spy camera's placed in toilets, this is a despicable act that should lead to the dismissal of those concerned, the rules applying to spy camera's in decent countries , there should be notice's posted to warn of camera's in the toilets, although, decent countries don't place camera's in toilets, only intelligence agency's are allowed to not advertise camera's present, on another note I have just finished up at a mine site because of camera's in the work place, including crib rooms with audio, Australia is not without problems of this kind either.bah.gif

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City officials deny spying on CMPO
Tanatpong Kongsai
The Nation

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BANGKOK: -- SECURITY cameras have surprisingly appeared in mobile-toilet trucks parked at the Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO).

The trucks came from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), and questions have been raised about why they were sent to the centre.

"No. We don't have any bad intentions. And I don't want to spy [on CMPO]," Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra said yesterday.

The CMPO was set up to deal with the state of emergency declared in the face of anti-government rallies by the People's Democratic Reform Committee.

Sukhumbhand said if the CMPO had nothing to hide, it need not worry about the security cameras. "But if any party is uncomfortable with the security cameras, we can remove them," the Bangkok governor added. The CMPO, which is now located inside the Narcotics Suppression Bureau and the Royal Thai Police Sports Club, had requested the mobile-toilet trucks from the BMA in anticipation that anti-government demonstrators might show up and surround its headquarters.

Six mobile-toilet trucks arrived on Tuesday night and security cameras were discovered on four of the trucks yesterday.

"We planned to install them for safety reasons," Deputy Bangkok City Clerk Banjong Sookdee said. "But these cameras are new and are not set up to work yet."

He said the BMA believed security cameras would help boost the safety of mobile-toilet users. There have been reports that thefts, vandalism, physical attacks and drug abuse have taken place inside such vehicles before.

Sanya Mingma, a BMA official in charge of the mobile-toilet trucks, said the security cameras were only installed in stairways leading into and out of the trucks, and in the wash-basin zones.

Online pictures show cameras are hidden in tissue boxes, which are near urinals.

Sukhumbhand said if the CMPO queried his city administration about the discovery of the security cameras, he would be ready to provide an explanation.

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-- The Nation 2014-01-30

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There is a shopping centre in OZ that has cameras in the toilet areas (not in the stalls) but they have lots of signs around to inform people.

It apparantly was a high crime/drug use spot but not any more they say.

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The cameras are only next to the sinks and are there to catch vandals, what is the problem? The demonstrators put plastic bags over the street CCTV and then complained that the police were slow in catching the guy who threw the grenade, because the police had no street CCTV to help them.

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I did not realize how many CCTV's there are in Thailand. I live in Kanchanaburi and just realized there are 3 cameras at every intersection along the river road. Kind of creepy because you never notice them them once you see them you realize how many there are. I take solace in the fact I knowing most of them more than likely do not work and the guy watching the other end most likely is sleeping.

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I remembered in places like surin there are cameras at the traffic junctions and the live footage is show on a local telly channel....pretty cool.

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I cannot see any problem with having CCTV cameras in public areas of toilets, for security purposes.

In most schools where I teach, there are CCTV cameras in the childrens' toilets, albeit not hidden.

The entrance to the toilets and possibly near the hand basins I don't have a real problem with but in the cubicles and urinals is over stepping the mark. A number of people have faced criminal charges in Australia over the years for putting camera in toilets.

This is the latest one

Man arrested over hidden toilet...

19 hours ago

A member of the public found what was revealed to be a hidden camera in the Victoria Square male toilets on January 20. Police were called and found a second device in the female toilets. They later said "inappropriate images" were found on the memory card of the camera taken from the male toilet, but the card from the other toilet was faulty and nothing could be retrieved. Police on Wednesday said they had charged a 19-year-old man with 28
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I cannot see any problem with having CCTV cameras in public areas of toilets, for security purposes.

In most schools where I teach, there are CCTV cameras in the childrens' toilets, albeit not hidden.

The entrance to the toilets and possibly near the hand basins I don't have a real problem with but in the cubicles and urinals is over stepping the mark. A number of people have faced criminal charges in Australia over the years for putting camera in toilets.

This is the latest one

Man arrested over hidden toilet...

19 hours ago

A member of the public found what was revealed to be a hidden camera in the Victoria Square male toilets on January 20. Police were called and found a second device in the female toilets. They later said "inappropriate images" were found on the memory card of the camera taken from the male toilet, but the card from the other toilet was faulty and nothing could be retrieved. Police on Wednesday said they had charged a 19-year-old man with 28

I doubt that they're trying to get pornographic images but rather try to capture unscrupulous behavior within the room. I seriously doubt that they are watching girls or men take of their pants but monitoring what may be construed as criminal behavior. I don't think that's such a BAD thing.

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This really makes my day. The clumsy way how these devices have been fitted and every time the paper roll has be to changed the wiring could be ripped off. You can almost smell the Super Glue through the PC here.

It would be great to have this 'invention' placed as a monument next to the other invention in Lumphini Park, the Aero motor adding Oxygen to water by using electricity.

@Mr. Sukhumbhand Paribatra; do you know the TV programs MacGyver & Tooltime. It is all great.

My tip would be to use sensor activated water taps (like the constant broken ones at Suvanrbahumi) and fit the camera next to the sensor. Nobody will notice! What you think?

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