Installing A Few Stupid CCTV Cams Can Cause $29M!
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$29m for more cameras at MRT stations
Work due to start next month in move to beef up commuter safety By Yeo Ghim Lay
The CCTV cameras will train their 'eyes' on station platforms, ticketing halls, entrances, exits, lifts and restricted-access areas. -- ST FILE PHOTO
THE Government is putting $29 million into more closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in all MRT stations to beef up commuter safety.
Those using the trains on the North-East Line (NEL) can expect more CCTV cameras by mid-2010, and those using the stations on the North-South and East-West Lines, a year later.
The cameras will train their 'eyes' on station platforms, ticketing halls, entrances, exits, lifts and restricted-access areas, said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the Land Transport Authority (LTA) yesterday in a joint reply to queries from The Straits Times.
They did not reveal how many more CCTV cameras would be installed, but said the number would vary from station to station, depending on their layouts.
This step-up in security, laid out in the Land Transport Masterplan unveiled this year, comes in the wake of the July 2005 terrorist attacks on London's public transport system.
The British authorities had used the 500,000 cameras across the transport network to identify the perpetrators of those attacks.
While the Government will pay for the cameras to be installed, the rail operators running the stations will see to their upkeep, MHA and LTA said.
Three contracts have been awarded to the following companies and work is expected to start next month:
Thales Security Asia, which is part of the Thales Group based in France, will supply and install cameras along the North-South and East-West lines for $11.6 million.
O'Connor's Singapore, a system integrator for security and surveillance systems, will upgrade the existing back-end systems to record and store images captured by the cameras along the two lines for $11.9 million.
Advantech Peripherals (Singapore), which has provided CCTV systems in public buses and schools here, will install cameras and their associated back-end systems along the NEL for $5.5 million.
The LTA invited proposals from the industry last year to install a broad surveillance system, with cameras on board every MRT train and in every station, as well as at train depots.
The call-for-proposals followed a year-long trial during which a few hundred CCTV cameras were installed on selected public buses and trains travelling along the North-South and East-West lines.
Besides deploying cameras and security officers, the LTA plans to install platform screen doors at elevated MRT stations to prevent track intrusions by 2012. ghimlay@sph.com.sg
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