YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOU ARE ON CANDID CAMERA

Apr 13, 2013 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

The driver had an attractive female sitting next to him in the front of the car. He was chatting with her and every time he neared a traffic light in the city he would veer off into a side street.
I, who was merely hitching a ride, felt that he was perhaps like some taxi drivers who were impatient and did not want to wait at intersections where there were lights and thus preferred to take some of the side streets to get to our destination earlier.
When we finally did reach our destination, I pointed out to him that the journey took longer that if he had simply used the main roads where there are numerous traffic lights.
“I know that,” he said, “but that girl in the car was not my wife and so I could not pass through the intersections with traffic lights.”
“What the traffic lights have to do with your extra-marital partner?” I asked.
What they have to do? I do not want to be caught on any of those CCTV cameras that are over those traffic lights. The next thing you know someone sees the girl in the car and reports back to Big Aunty.”
I recalled that conversation when I read recently that an opposition MP had contended that the CCTV cameras that were mounted in many parts of Georgetown but mainly at busy intersections were not helping in the fight against crime.
My friend was so afraid that someone he knew could be monitoring the cameras and would discover his extra-marital affair that he decided that he was not going to pass under any of them.
If those cameras could have forced my friend to have to use side streets simply because he had a sweet woman in his car, imagine the effects it would have had as a deterrent to crime.
The cameras serve two purposes. Firstly they would allow for images of getaway cars and suspects to be captured by the law-enforcement agencies. There was time when there used to be many robberies and the robbers would use getaway cars. Sometimes they hijacked vehicles and used them to head up to the East Coast.
By monitoring these main exits and entrances to the city, the authorities would be able to know the movements of certain vehicles and thus advise their patrols. They can also use the technology to know in which direction the getaway vehicles went.
It is noticeable that ever since these cameras went up, certain types of crimes involving getaway cars have become greatly reduced in the city. This means that the cameras have had a deterrent effect because the criminals know that the authorities would have been able to exercise some amount of monitoring over their activities.
The police would also be able to use these cameras to obtain useful evidence and to identify suspects. This is the second reason for the decision to install the cameras.
What Guyana needs are more cameras because they do help. In fact, in many countries, video cams are being installed in cars so as to allow the owners to have evidence in the event that they get into an accident. The camera records what is taking place and therefore would record the accident.
The cameras are also being used in places like Russia to combat corrupt cops. When a cop stops a car, the camera rolls and records everything that he says and does, unknowing, of course, to the cop. Thus, if the cop demands a bribe the footage is captured on the small camera located within the car.
Guyanese drivers need to install these devices in their vehicles. The devices come cheap and will help solve a great many problems including helping the police to identify corrupt and rogue cops.

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