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Discussion 1 : 07/09/2012 at 09:03 AM

"They will be connected to the CCTV control centre at the Metropolitan Police headquarters and at 88 city police stations" Oh come on! 11,200+ monitors in a police station? The mind boggles.

Discussion 2 : 07/09/2012 at 07:21 AM

"The security cameras will be set up at important government installations such as Government House, parliament, residences of important persons, business establishments and in residential areas." I would have thought important persons can afford to install a CCTV system on their residences by themselves, the same goes for business establishments. If they get every single kilometer of road in Bangkok under a camera that would be fine and might eventually help in analyzing what has already happened.

Discussion 3 : 07/09/2012 at 06:14 AM

Sloppy, and poorly researched article. Bangkok Post needs to lift their game.

Discussion 4 : 06/09/2012 at 10:57 PM

Even if the one million cameras is a correct amount, which is hard to believe, it doesn't really matter. The rich will still go free as seen recently with the Praewa Van deaths and probably with the Red Bull Kid killing of a policeman on a motorcycle. These cameras will only put the poor into jail.

Discussion 5 : 06/09/2012 at 09:49 PM

It does not really matter if there are 1 thousand or 1 million cameras if they don’t work or are disabled. If in 2010 just some of the cameras around Ratchaprasong would have worked then the arsonists and terrorists could have been in jail for a long time. But the bad guys disabled or destroyed these cameras. So if more cameras are installed then the bad guys need some more time to disable the cameras, but I guess that will be the only difference. We know already now that any camera which records anything important and some rich and influential person is involved then somehow that video will disappear or the camera did not work or whatever. So what’s the point of all these cameras – except some commission for the buyers?

Discussion 6 : 06/09/2012 at 09:25 PM

Anyone going to monitor these as they don't monitor the ones they have that work.

Discussion 7 : 06/09/2012 at 07:38 PM

How many will be real?

Discussion 8 : 06/09/2012 at 06:43 PM

Don't worry, just another little 'white lie' from the regime.

Discussion 9 : 06/09/2012 at 05:57 PM

When they say 'a million' they mean 25,000. Compare the numbers of Red Shirts predicted and those that actually show up.

Discussion 10 : 06/09/2012 at 05:13 PM

It is obvious that one million cameras is a total fantasy, or poor reporting. And how many of the existing ones actually work? Several years ago they tried to use phone lines to regulate the traffic lights instead of doing it from the bizarre and antiquated police boxes, and it was abandoned because the poor infrastructure couldn't cope. How will that same infastructure handle 1 million videos?

Discussion 11 : 06/09/2012 at 04:31 PM

One Million!!! A typo or you will find one every meter of all the roads and sois???

Discussion 12 : 06/09/2012 at 04:10 PM

One Million is a lot of cameras. Maybe someone needs to re-visit their math classes. It would take quite an army of installers and maintenance people, not mention at least a hundred thousand more people to monitor them effectively. Imagine the drain on the available bandwidth, just to send all of those signals to the monitoring stations. This is going to be a huge Government contract for the Chinese. Even at 5,000.00 Baht Each this will be 5 Billion plus installation and cables et., and then there is the electricity to run One Million Cameras. Maybe they can barter for some old Rice stocks.

Discussion 13 : 06/09/2012 at 03:34 PM

Hello BP, That number of camers does not sound correct. I don't believe there are that many intersections and building in all of Bangkok. 10,000 maybe but suspect most of those will be dummies as was reported a few years ago.

Discussion 14 : 06/09/2012 at 03:12 PM

One Million is a lot of cameras. Maybe someone needs to re-visit their math classes. It would take quite an army of installers and maintenance people, not mention at least a hundred thousand more people to monitor them effectively. Imagine the drain on the available bandwidth, just to send all of those signals to the monitoring stations. This is going to be a huge Government contract for the Chinese. Even at 5,000.00 Baht Each this will be 5 Billion plus installation and cables et., and then there is the electricity to run One Million Cameras. Maybe they can barter for some old Rice stocks.

Discussion 15 : 06/09/2012 at 03:03 PM

Now how many operators will be able to handle 1 mln CCTV camera's. Trust me, this is TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE. One operator can "see" about 24 camera's at the time and only for max two hours at the time, after this he needs to rotate for he does not register anything any more. (intl banking standard) In Thailand I give him one hour for the attention span to wane. Please do the math and you will find this is another Bln Baht project to make the money roll. We talk about thousands of operators and thousands of control rooms. Sorry for the doubters, I design security control rooms for large project (including banks and prisons) since 24 years, I know the rap.

Discussion 16 : 06/09/2012 at 02:27 PM

1 million more CCTV cameras...one million ??? really....????