10 June 2009 | News

CCTV fails to aid HK acid attack investigations

A Hong Kong police chief has denied that installing more CCTV cameras will bring an end to the recent spat of acid attacks in the city’s dense shopping area.

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10 June 2009 | News

Malaysia tightens security to curb illegal emigration

Malaysia is tightening coastal security in a bid to curb rising numbers of people fleeing the country illegally.

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8 June 2009 | News

CCTV ineffective at crime detection: researcher

End-users make bold claims about their million-dollar surveillance systems, but we need to get real about the abilities of CCTV to detect crime. So says Helene Wells, Research Officer, Crime and Misconduct Commission, Queensland, Australia.

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22 May 2009 | Interview

High definition, but flexible

Relating to the new CCTV installation in Hong Kong, Yoshikazu Hirano, Sony’s Asia Pacific General Manager for Security Solutions, comments on how to make the best out of a high definition surveillance system.

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21 May 2009 | Feature

CCTV in a safe city

Mark Medwecki, Superintendent at Hong Kong Police’s Crime Prevention Bureau, shares his views on the territory‘s surveillance landscape.

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21 May 2009 | News

CCTV should leverage mobile phones: Singapore Police

Surveillance professionals should be leveraging the potential of the high penetration of mobile phones with cameras, the Director of Operations at Singapore Police Force (SPF) urged delegates at Asian Security Review’s third annual FutureCCTV09 Forum.

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21 May 2009 | News

Video analytics debate rages at FutureCCTV

According to an Asian Security Review survey, one third of the region’s security professionals said they were not willing to embrace CCTV video analytics systems today. Video analytics was at the centre of a heated debate at the FutureCCTV conference in Singapore yesterday (Wednesday 21 May 2009).

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19 May 2009 | News

London police chief: vendors must raise their game for Olympics

The Superintendent of London’s largest police force has laid down the gauntlet for CCTV vendors to come up with better surveillance technology ahead of the 2012 Olympics Games.

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11 May 2009 | News

Singapore’s border needs to be more secure

The recent arrest of Mas Selamat Kastari, a terrorist held under Singapore’s Internal Security Act, in Johor, Malaysia on 1 April revealed the limitation of Singapore’s border control measures.

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22 April 2009 | News

Cameras to stop fly-tipping in Hong Kong

The government plans to install CCTV cameras at 60 black spots to curb illegal dumping of waste.

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21 April 2009 | News

CCTV planned for Manila's international schools

The leadership of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) have announced plans to install additional closed circuit televisions (CCTV) in international schools in time for the beginning of term in June this year.

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21 April 2009 | News

CCTV surveillance boosted in Bangkok

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will install 10,000 additional closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras intended to monitor traffic and crime in major areas throughout the troubled Thai captial, according to BMA City Clerk Pongsak Semson.

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9 April 2009 | News

CCTV effectiveness system unveiled

A new system to improve the effectiveness of CCTV, known as a gaze-tracking camera system, has been developed at the Gebze Institute of Technology in Turkey.

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2 April 2009 | News

CCTV ramped up for G20 in London

With security fears rising in the build-up to the G20 summit on Thursday, London’s Metropolitan Police have been given access to more than 3,000 CCTV cameras around London.

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25 March 2009 | News

EU wants CCTV to monitor police brutality

The European Council has recommended that Portugal monitors its police officers by using video-surveillance cameras inside stations following us complaints of police brutality against detainees.

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25 March 2009 | News

More CCTV planned for 2010 Vancouver Olympics

Vancouver city officials want to use $2.5 million in government funding to purchase street cameras for next year’s Winter Olympics.

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2 March 2009 | News

Integrated security proposal for Indian railway station

The Railway Protection Force, the paramilitary force charged with protecting the Indian Railways, has submitted a Rs 75 million (US$1.5 million) integrated security proposal to the Railway Board for foolproof security to Ernakulam Junction Railway Station.

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19 February 2009 | News

Seoul schools to embrace big brother

Public education facilities from kindergarten to high schools in Seoul, South Korea, plan to significantly increase the amount of CCTV cameras on their premises.

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19 February 2009 | News

CCTV demand in the Middle East unaffected by crisis

The financial crisis may be threatening to reverse the property boom in the Middle East, but it has yet to dampen demand for CCTV in the region.

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9 January 2009 | News

State-of-the-art municipal CCTV system in Sydney

The City of Sydney in New South Wales (NSW), Australia has cameras plastered all over its prime locations, without people noticing that they are being watched. The CCTV network will aid in the detection and investigation of various street crimes, hooliganism and in the dealing of crowd control

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2 January 2009 | News

CCTV vital tool in helping police

One of Europe’s largest CCTV networks helped police detained nearly 800 people over the past year after they were captured on film committing a crime.

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20 December 2008 | Interview

Bahrain’s Geographic Security System The GIS-based national

The GIS-based national security implementation which is the first of its kind in the Gulf region. By Jim Baumann.

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24 November 2008 | News

Psychic airport security scanner

A new mind-reading scanner, developed by the US Department for Homeland Security (DHS) is being trialed at airports in the US.

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7 November 2008 | Feature

Effective surveillance network

How a network of CC TV cameras can be deployed, managed and made effective in specific scenarios.

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3 November 2008 | News

CCTVs used for Navotas's traffic and anti-crime monitoring activities

The government of the city of Metro Manila, Navotas, is planning to acquire closed circuit television (CCTV) systems for the monitoring of its traffic and anti-crime activities.

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30 October 2008 | Research

CCTV market to grow 23 per cent by 2012

A new market report looks at the demand for surveillance cameras in the next four years

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25 September 2008 | News

Marriot bombing reveals serious security lapse

A few serious problems about the Islamabad Marriott bombing need to be addressed, along with finding the real culprit.

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25 September 2008 | Research

CCTV helps shorten investigation time

A universal IP-based CCTV ‘player’ will be able to significantly reduce investigation time and make it easier for the police to view footage, research finds.

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14 August 2008 | Feature

Surveillance on steroids: supercharge your CCTV with software

Can you teach an old dog new tricks? You can with IP-based CCTV! We look at how the latest surveillance software radically extends the ability to screen for unusual behaviour, detect unattended baggage and monitor access, among other capabilities.

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6 August 2008 | Research

New threat found in VoIP

VoIP streams are encrypted to prevent eavesdropping. However, a team from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, US, has shown that simply measuring the size of packets without decoding them can identify whole words and phrases with a high rate of accuracy.

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21 May 2008 | Feature

Proving the value of CCTV

Does CCTV suppress crime or displace it? As metropolitan CCTV systems become more commonplace, we look at the factors affecting the impact of surveillance investment – and ask users to identify the returns they have achieved from their expanding CCTV infrastructure.

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