It is one of the corollaries of business that what gets measured gets results. In security, it tends to follow that what gets monitored and secured remains safe.That was probably the reasoning behind the deployment of security cameras in national hotspot areas and in the city centre, but there is still to be convincing evidence that such monitoring has produced any improvement in the quality of policing, detection or crime reduction where city blocks have been subject to the unblinking eyes of CCTV cameras.
The most notable use for such video captures has tended to be to provide startling and often shocking footage for television reality shows where crimes seem to have a much higher resolution rate than they do within the monitoring rooms of the Police Service.That begs the question of whether T&T has deployed a complete solution for not just camera deployment, but also for software-driven motion detection and face recognition among the many ancillary services that ride so effectively on top of modern video feeds.
Last Thursday, the commander of the National Operations Centre, Garvin Heerah, was trumpeting the establishment of a network of CCTV cameras for business centres in the city, but as announcements go, it was more of a restatement of purpose than news.In November 2012, the national security minister of the day, Jack Warner, announced that 500 CCTV cameras would be deployed in hotspot areas, specifically Beetham Estate, Morvant, Belmont and Sea Lots.
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