NASSAU, Bahamas – As part of the Minnis administration’s fight against crime, the government will invest $3 million to expand its closed-circuit television (CCTV) program to over 500 cameras across New Providence within the first quarter of this year, according to Minister of National Security Marvin Dames, Eyewitness News reported January 24.
The second phase of the expansion is expected to see over 700 cameras strategically installed.
Dames made the announcement to the media following a contract signing with ShotSpotter (gunshot detection technology) at SLS Baha Mar.
“This is onward growth, but as I said before one of the things that we want to be careful of as a government, and I see this mistake often made — not only in The Bahamas, but throughout — you acquire technology to say you have it and the infrastructure is not in place; the human resource is not there; not been trained to manage [it]; and what you end of doing is, you end up not maximizing the technology,” the minister said. https://ewnews.com/dames-cctv-expansion-eyed-at-3-million?fbclid=IwAR3m7Gqpbg8TrYjTud-p6iLJlmjtr_d0_6cQ3hUFgjMqgG9JwuIB8aLpiYo
