Surveillance cameras for TT
By CLINT CHAN TACK
Newsday, Wednesday, April 30 2008

NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Martin Joseph yesterday unveiled Government’s
latest anti-crime initiative – a National Monitoring and Surveillance
System comprising of at least 66 hi-tech closed circuit television
(CCTV) cameras with the ability to detect gunshots and reveal identities
of perpetrators in the commissioning of a crime.

Responding to questions by Senate Minority Leader Wade Mark, Joseph told
the Upper House that Government had launched a pilot CCTV project
involving 18 cameras in Port-of-Spain during the Carnival celebrations.

He said 14 of these cameras are government-owned and the other four are
owned by members of the private sector. “These cameras are all being
monitored from a central location,” the Minister stated. Joseph said
following consultation with security agencies in other countries, “an
upgraded network is currently being pursued.”

He explained that this network will comprise the latest digital
mega-pixel Internet Protocol and Fixed and Pan Tilt Zoom day-night cameras.

“These will provide clearer, enlarged pictures of faces, license plates
and other items of interest. It is the ministry’s intention to further
upgrade the network to allow for, among other things, gunshot detection
sensors,” he said.

The full system should be in place by the end of May.



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