Big Brother

i read recently that the NRC Police Office is planning to acquire P15M worth of CCTV equipment to bebetter manage the cameras installed all around the Metro. ultimately, the goal is to lessen and control crime by instilling some sort of fear on would be crime doers or at least having an easier time finding out who the fearless are.

however, i have serious doubts about the effectivity of this new high tech security monitoring system. the simple reason is that everytime i see footage (on tv) of crimes caught on these cameras, i never see the faces of the suspects. the images are far from being clear.

in fact, studies show that kin the UK, only 3% of street crimes have been solved by camera data. it stated that aside from the difficulty of distinguishing the face of the criminals from the footage itself, they lack a system wherein the faces could be matched with their identity.

the same thing i think would happen here. i suggest they use the 15 million on around 40 Cherry QQ Patrol Cars. police visibility would do better in my opinion.