CCTV cameras to be installed to catch killer litter offenders
Published on Mar 7, 2012
Surveillance cameras will be installed in areas plagued by high-rise littering problems, in a move announced by Grace Fu, Senior Minister of State for Environment and Water Resources. -- ST PHOTO: TED CHEN
From the second quarter of this year, surveillance cameras will be installed in areas plagued by high-rise littering problems.
Senior Minister of State for Environment and Water Resources Grace Fu announced the move in response to MPs' calls to curb 'killer litter' which undermines public safety. The move comes after a pilot project by the National Environment Agency (NEA).
It used surveillance cameras and video analytic software to catch high-rise littering offenders. Cameras were mounted on the roof-top walls of HDB blocks in 10 different locations to capture the act of littering from windows.
Two offenders were caught on camera and littering activity dropped at these locations. Each month, the NEA receives feedback on about 100 cases of high-rise littering. In the past decade, NEA has prosecuted a total of 41 cases of high-rise littering.
Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
