Train stations in Sydney will soon follow London's surveillance style with NSW (New South Wales) Govt. planning to deploy latest CCTV technology.
Train stations in Sydney will soon follow London's surveillance style with NSW (New South Wales) Govt. planning to deploy latest CCTV (closed circuit TV) technology with over 280 latest high-resolution CCTV cameras ready for complementing existing 6,000 cameras working across the railway network.
These cameras will assist the police by giving better pictures of suspects than the existing ones, which provide with a basic outline of the object. John Watkins, transport minister, announced a US$ 1 Million fund to upgrade CCTV cameras at major stations, North Sydney & eastern suburbs. Highlighting the bombing incident in London that led to this decision he said that they don't want such an incident to happen in Sydney.
Watkins said that the new cameras would be initially deployed at 12 busiest stations with 50 cameras at Central Station to monitor live images to be displayed on Plasma display screens. Also, 125 cameras are to be deployed at Town Hall, Wynyard & King Cross stations.
"In the last few decades, heightened fear of terrorism in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US, in tandem with rising conventional crime rates in many countries, analysts predict that the access control technologies and other security systems (like biometric, CCTV and Video surveillance equipment) are likely to witness a colossal demand with an approximate annual growth rate of 36.9 percent across the world, by 2009", estimates the report "Closed Circuit TV Industry: A Market Update (2005-2008)" published by RNCOS.
Earlier in this year, Peter Chalk - a terrorism analyst - slammed govt. for not taking adequate measures to ensure safety for travelers like bomb-proofing the trains.
Nick Kaldas, Assistant Commissioner for counter-terrorism at NSW police highlighted the importance of cameras as an effective tool to gather intelligence & evidence to counter crime. If people know that they are being watched, they're less probable to perform any unacceptable activities, he said.
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Global CCTV Market Analysis (2008-2012)
UK CCTV Market Update (2007)
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