The Road Transport Department (R.T.D.), it is said will initiate the use of cameras soon. These cameras would be installed at all traffic junctions in Malaysia. It is intended to deter indisciplined motorists from doing dangerous stunts as beating red traffic lights.
The Road Transport Department cannot allow Malaysians to continue to behave in such manner. Foreigners have a very bad impression of Malaysian drivers as a whole.
Malaysia’s accident rate ranks amongst the highest in the world. It’s number three, behind China and India. The R.T.D. has to redeem the standard of Malaysian drivers. With this in mind, the R.T.D. has finally decided to implement the cameras in its Automated Enforcement System (A.E.S.) soon.
The role of CCTVs today in our country is indeed immense. The R.T.D., according to its Minister, Datuk Ong Tee Kiat, is scheduled to launch the A.E.S. program anytime now in September 2010 throughout the country.
With this system at all traffic lights junction, R.T.D. will fix surveillance cameras to deter indisciplined motorists from doing wrong things like beating red traffic lights and so forth.
The Malay Mail, 23rd June 2010
KOTA BARU: The education ministry encourages all schools to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in a bid to curb disciplinary problems, including gangsterism, among students.
Director-General of Education Tan Sri Alimuddin Mohd Dom said the installation of the CCTV cameras was a very good initiative to monitor the behaviour of students while they were in the school compound.
"If the schools have their own financial resources to install CCTV cameras, we encourage them to do so," he told reporters after opening the 49th National Secondary School Principals Education Management Conference 2010 here today.
However, he said the ministry did not have a specific allocation for the purpose.
"As we all know, the installation of the CCTV camera is costly because we cannot have only one camera to cover all areas of the school. I was made to understand that several schools which had installed the CCTV cameras had done so at their own expense," he said.
On the student found dead due to a miscarriage at a resort in Pantai Cahaya Bulan, two days ago, Alimuddin said the ministry had received a report from the Kelantan Education Department on the incident.
Earlier in his speech, Alimuddin reminded principals and headmasters to maintain cordial relations with parents.
He said he received numerous complaints on the attitude of principals and headmasters, some to the extend of chasing out parents out of school compound.
"I don't know how far this is true but it is important to maintain cordial relations with parents as well as with students.
"They should instill respect, not fear, among students and subordinates," he said, adding that school authorities should also view seriously the issue of security in school.
