Monday, June 28, 2010

Dubai Security Cameras "Everywhere"

Dubai Security Cameras "Everywhere"




Dubai police are to spend Dh500 million ($136 million) on security technology in 2010 with the aim of having surveillance cameras "everywhere".

There are 25,000 security cameras in the bustling emirate of Dubai.This number will be increased to keep up with the city’s fast expansion as the police force starts installing a new type of smart cameras that can rotate to cover what were once “dead spots”.

“We need to work according to a well-studied strategic plan and not only react to events as they come along...We will have cameras everywhere,” Lieutenant GeneralDahi Khalfan Tamim, the Chief of Dubai Police, told The National on June 19, 2010.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Attacker is free because no CCTV

Attacker is free because no CCTV

A lack of CCTV cameras has meant a glassing attacker has escaped conviction after a New Year's Eve assault, victim Kylie Keough says. Ms Keough was hit in the face with a glass on December 31, 2008, at the Ashmont Inn but 17 months later the attacker has yet to be charged. Although the venue has extensive video surveillance, the beer garden in which Ms Keough was assaulted was a blind spot.