CCTVs at Commercial Bldgs
 

Just heard some news from friends working in MCSTs in commercial buildings. Although most buildings have their own CCTVs installed.... the police wants to install their own Polcam inside the buildings especially near "units" of special interest. This Polcams are for the police own usesage and separate from the buildings monitoring systems.

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Wear cap and face mask, you are almost unrecognizable. Unless they have safe entry, then it is tricky

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No point, they are not interested in you or any other customer. If anything , the police are only interested in monitoring and then busting the shop.

But i find this idea bizarre .....what if next time the shop unit change owner and nature of business - and the cctv still pointed at them?? :confused:

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That is true, we only will handcuff those who damage public property, these ML are private property, we couldn't care less, carry on your routine essential needs.

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Oredi implemented at Parklane & GM. Can see these Polcams are different from the normal cctvs. Big white round base with black domes and SPF logo. But I think they cannot suka suka install in any commercial building as they wish unless that building owner/management gives approval.

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This is not a new practice. Same thing happened at Fortune Centre during its heydays, one cam was installed outside each of the MP. After that the raids became more frequent causing these MPs to start moving out and FC became the ghost town it is today.

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Do building owner/management have a choice? :D

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Install inside MPs better.
Can have "live" footage of sizzling actions

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The building owners have the legal rights to say NO to the installation of Polcams inside their premises. And I know of several such owners who have refused permission to the police and urged them to work with the buildings' security instead.

What I understand of the situation is that for some buildings where the police had to conduct raids repeatedly, the owners are coerced into letting the police to install Polcams by threat of prosecuting the building owners / management of complicity and accomplie by knowingly allowing their premises to be used for criminal / vice / illegal activities. In exchange for not prosecuting them, the owners / management lanlan have to let the police have their way.

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Let mata installing cctv right infront of the shop is as good as chasing tge tenants to move

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Hahahaa Police Academy, still a trainee ah? Know how to handle a pistol? :D

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Police Academy? Still living in the past century?
Police Academy already closed down since donkey yesrs ago.
Now police recruits are trained at TRACOM at the HomeTeam Academy in Choa Chu Kang.

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Not easy to prosecute the owners..... afaik there was only 1 successful conviction (Shing hotel in Kitchener rd) in the past 10 yrs although several cases went to court. The rap is usually pushed to the employees, property agents or tua pek kongs.

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lol make sg a bad place for business