24 new CCTV cameras installed, 58 more awaiting approval

PENANG  (Thestar)  -  About  one  third  of  Penang  Island  roads  and  intersections  are  now  the coverage  of  closed-circuit  television  (CCTV)  cameras.

State  Local  Government and Traffic  Management  Committee  chairman  Chow  Kon  Yeow  said  this  was  made  possible  with  an  additional  24  cameras  from  the  Housing  and  Local  Government  Ministry.

“With  these  additional  CCTV  cameras,  Penang  island  now  has  a  total  of  56  cameras”.

“The  24  new  cameras,  which  cost  RM2.87mil  to  install,  became  operational  on  March  31,”  he  said  when  giving  reporters  a  tour  of  the  Penang  Integrated  Public  Safety  Command  Centre  in  Komtar.

He  said  in  a  joint  effort  with  the  police,  MPPP  had  previously  installed  31  cameras  in  crime  hotspots  and  these  cameras  had  been  operational  since  February  2008.

MPPP  engineering  department  senior  engineer  A.  Rajendran  said  the  council  had  installed  one  more  camera  on  Jalan  Sungai  earlier  this  year,  with  two more  planned  for  the  Komtar  bus  terminal  in  August.

The  areas  covered  by  the  24  new  cameras  include  the  Tun  Dr  Lim  Chong  Eu  Expressway,  Jalan  Air  Itam,  Jalan  Boundary,   Weld Quay,  Queensbay  Mall,  Several  areas  in the  Free  Industrial  Zone  in Bayan  Lepas,  Bayan  Baru,  Tanjuung  Tokong,  Tanjung  Bungah  and  Batu  Ferringhi.

Rajendran  said  the  new  cameras  were  connected  using  fibre  optics,  unlike  the  previous  cameras  that  ran  on  a  4.9GHz  broadband  wireless  system.

“The  picture  from  the  fibre  optics  is  much  sharper  and  with  the  cameras  able  to  turn  360  degrees  horizontally,  as  well  as  90  degrees  vertically,  we  get  a  very  good  picture  of  what  is  happening  on  the  street,”  he  said.

Such  footages,  he  added,  had  helped  police  detect  crimes  and  accidents  as  well  as  settle  traffic  disputes.

Chow  added  that  the  state  was  still  waiting  for  a  reply  from  the  Federal  Government  on  an  additional  58  CCTV  cameras  that  they  had  requested  under  the  National  Result  Areas  programme  in  2009.

“Out  of  these  58  cameras,  36 are proposed  for  the  island  while  the  other  22  will  cover  Seberang  Prai,”  he added.

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Police to Issue Summons With Photo of Vehicle Starting May 1

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 (Bernama) -- From May 1, police will issue summonses photographs of vehicles violating traffic regulations in areas monitored by closed-circuit television.

Police car capture the suspect

Deputy Inspector General of Police Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said Thursday that the new procedure would be used for all traffic offences, including speeding and failure to use seat belts.

He expects the new procedure to leave little chance of mistaken identity.

"But, if there are still people who claim that police have got the wrong vehicle (even with a picture attached to the summons), they should produce evidence of the mistake at any traffic counter," he told reporters here.

In areas without CCTV, summonses will be issued as usual by traffic officers, Khalid said.

The Deputy IGP also said that stern action would be taken against any police personnel found to have refused to accept a report from a member of the public.

Khalid said the top police management had received many complaints about policemen and officers refusing to take reports from the public.

He said this errant behavior was discussed in the Delivery Task Force meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin in Putrajaya Thursday.

Khalid told the public that the next time a policeman refused to take their report, they should note his number.

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How to Protect CCTV System from Lightning Dangers?

There are many cases involve CCTV Camera and lightning danger. To protect the CCTV Camera, the customers should now the surge protector.

What is surge protector? Surge protector is an appliance designed to protect electrical devices from voltage spikes. A surge protector attempts to limit the voltage supplied to an electric device by either blocking or by shorting to ground any unwanted voltages above a safe threshold.

The terms of Surge Protection Device (SPD) is used to describe the electrical devices typically installed in power distribution panels, process control system, communication systems, and other heavy-duty industrial system, for the purpose of protecting against electrical surges and spikes, including those caused by lightning. Scaled-down version of these devices is sometimes installed in residential service entrance electrical panels, to protect equipment in a household from similar hazard.

Many power strips have basic surge protection built in, this are typically clearly labeled as such. However, power strips that do not provide surge protection are sometimes erroneously referred to as “surge protectors” by persons  who do not understand their purpose and function (Wikipedia).

Illustration of Lightning Dangers 

Here are some tips to protect your CCTV system from lightning dangers:

If you think you know how to make your CCTV system safe from lightning, please think again!

How to be safe from lightning?

1. Believe that there are many Point-of-Dangers (PoDs) and this PoDs can affect the CCTV system in a bad way;
2. Learn where the CCTV system are located and do something beforehand, because while indoors, you will not be aware of impending dangers from lightning;
3. If you are aware of impending dangers from lightning, do not go near any PoD! There is no safe-time to unplug anything.

Do something right beforehand:

1. Isolate each CCTV system from induced lightning surges, with lightning isolators (surge protector device)!
2. Do not go near any CCTV system while bare-footed! Wear rubber sandals or stand on dry and insulated floor-mat or Equal Potential Safety Mat (EPSM), if you have one installed;
3.  Use remote-control, if possible;
4.  Be warned: INSURANCE is not a safety-measure! It is a cut-loss measure, often associated with dangers that could not be technologically avoided. Lightning dangers are avoidable, now!

How to create Safe-Island for your CCTV system? 

1. Identify all CCTV equipment in a setup and all must draw power from one and the same power surge protector only;
2.  Identify all the connections from this island to outside the CCTV system or to another island (including earth or ground wire, if any);
3. Choose one or more lightning isolator (surge protector) suitable for the purpose, and install correctly; 
4. Interconnections within this island can be directly interconnected, as safe-cables! Safe-cables must not be too near to un-safe cables (from outside this island)!
5. Any direct connection to outside, not via surge protector, renders this island to become un-safe!

CCTVMALAYSIA2u.com provide full range of Video surge protectors help prevent damage to sensitive electronic equipment due to differences in ground potential, power surges and area lightning strikes. It is easily installed between the coax video cable and equipment connection jack, our surge protectors intercept repeated surges and ground along a conductive wire without any loss of signal quality. These products offer a combined surge handling capacity of 4,000 watts. 

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