SINGAPORE: About 18,000 CCTV cameras have been installed in 3,300 Housing Development Board (HDB) blocks to date - one-third of the total number it hopes to achieve by 2016, Second Minister for Home Affairs S Iswaran said in Parliament on Tuesday (Oct 7).
This means that the police are on track to install cameras at all 10,000 existing and new HDB blocks and multi-storey car parks by 2016, Mr Iswaran said in response to a question by Member of Parliament Dr Lee Bee Wah.
Dr Lee asked whether CCTV cameras would be installed at all BTO flats. She also asked how the Ministry of Home Affairs and HDB are coordinating efforts to make housing estates more secure.
Mr Iswaran said the police consider a variety of factors when deciding on the installation schedule of CCTV cameras, whether for existing or newly-built HDB blocks. The police also work with the HDB to incorporate police camera requirements into new block designs.
“HDB also takes police security inputs into account when carrying out development or infrastructural works,” he said. “One example is the installation of additional lighting or gates at vacated blocks under the Selective En Bloc Redevelopment Scheme to prevent theft and trespass.”
- CNA
This means that the police are on track to install cameras at all 10,000 existing and new HDB blocks and multi-storey car parks by 2016, Mr Iswaran said in response to a question by Member of Parliament Dr Lee Bee Wah.
Dr Lee asked whether CCTV cameras would be installed at all BTO flats. She also asked how the Ministry of Home Affairs and HDB are coordinating efforts to make housing estates more secure.
Mr Iswaran said the police consider a variety of factors when deciding on the installation schedule of CCTV cameras, whether for existing or newly-built HDB blocks. The police also work with the HDB to incorporate police camera requirements into new block designs.
“HDB also takes police security inputs into account when carrying out development or infrastructural works,” he said. “One example is the installation of additional lighting or gates at vacated blocks under the Selective En Bloc Redevelopment Scheme to prevent theft and trespass.”
- CNA
