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  • Corporate Jamaica applauds CCTV surveillance move

    published: Wednesday | July 30, 2008

    BUSINESS INTERESTS are applauding the Government's decision to reintroduce closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance systems in major towns to support crime-fighting measures.

    Arthur Williams, state minister for national security, told the Senate last Friday that his ministry was involved in the development of three CCTV systems in Montego Bay, Mandeville and May Pen.
    The police are to monitor the systems.

    President of the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce, Lloyd B. Smith, told The Gleaner yesterday that persons with criminal intent would have second thoughts if they felt they would be captured on camera. He also said the business community would feel safer with the implementation of this crime-fighting measure.

    Identify traffic offenders
    Smith said surveillance cameras would help to identify motorists, particularly taxi operators, who breached the law with impunity.
    Aldo Brown, president of the Clarendon Chamber of Commerce, said the National Works Agency and the Ministry of National Security were working with the association to install the CCTV. He said member of parliament for Central Clarendon, Mike Henry, was also providing financial support.
    Brown said the system would help the police to provide wider coverage of the business hub in May Pen. According to Brown, with the CCTV system, the police could reduce the number of personnel to be deployed in the areas under surveillance and deploy these resources in areas without adequate coverage.

    Brown argued that the CCTV system would serve as a reference and database for the police.
    Senator Williams said a public tender was out for a CCTV system to cover sections of Montego Bay. This is being partially funded by the Tourism Enhancement Fund. He told the Senate that the final layout and system design of the CCTV system should be completed in the next two weeks and implementation is expected by September.
    "Jamaica's future reflects its past, having attained only one per cent annual growth over 30 years whilst neighbours have grown at five per cent." (Article)

  • #2
    Reintroduce?!?

    This is long overdue.


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    • #3
      yeah sections of Mobay. Here we go again;
      right back to the 1930s.

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Jawge View Post
        yeah sections of Mobay. Here we go again;
        right back to the 1930s.
        Smady talk to dis jokah nuh?
        "Jamaica's future reflects its past, having attained only one per cent annual growth over 30 years whilst neighbours have grown at five per cent." (Article)

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        • #5
          Dem need fi bring some CCTVs to Jungle & Olympic Gardens.
          Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else - Vince Lombardi

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          • #6
            any tourists living there?

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            • #7
              No, but there are gangs living there.
              Winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else - Vince Lombardi

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              • #8
                aah as long as they kill themselves, not
                a problem here. Sorry.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Jawge View Post
                  aah as long as they kill themselves, not
                  a problem here. Sorry.

                  Those cameras would not survive 24 hours!

                  Electronic witness, same treatment as informers!

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                  • #10
                    They can be easily masked. Do we have to go thru this again?


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                    • #11
                      mi used to si nuff japanese tourist a walk through places like southside showing no fear.... and me knowing that i would not be walking in dem dere neighbourhood.....

                      Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas Paine

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                      • #12
                        see dem all di while. not to mention the mormon youth dem.


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                        • #13
                          suh why yuh mention dem den?

                          Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. Thomas Paine

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                          • #14
                            ah don't know!



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                            • #15
                              Traffic offenders?

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