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TAKING their cue from highly developed countries in
curbing criminality on the streets, the cities of San Juan and Pasig
will enact an ordinance that would require closed circuit television
to be placed strategically in areas considered to be “danger
zones,” Eastern Police District Chief Supt. Luizo Ticman said on
Sunday.
The CCTV, otherwise known as
surveillance cameras, are actually already being used in the City of
Marikina. Its use would also be mandatory for all business
establishments and other vital areas in the eastern part of Metro
Manila.
Mandaluyong City has yet to draft
a similar ordinance.
Ticman said there is great
importance in putting up surveillance cameras not only for security
and monitoring purposes but also for helping solve crimes like the
“Kyna case”. Kyna is the three-year old girl who was first
reported missing in a mall, but whose body was found later floating
in a creek in Pasig.
San Juan Mayor Joseph Victor
Ejercito said that CCTVs are already installed in the Greenhills
area where the main shopping mall and business establishments are
located.
“We would also like to install
surveillance cameras in the key intersections (to monitor)
situations on the streets and help deter crimes as well,” Ejercito
said.
Pasig City Mayor Robert Eusebio
echoed Ejercito’s statement, noting the importance of CCTVs in the
Ortigas area, the business capital of the city.
 --Francis
Earl A. Cueto
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