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Oct 28, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
I met with a businessman whose store was recently burglarized in Robb Street and he asked me to enlarge a photo that someone with a cell phone had taken of a person that might have been a ‘look-out’ while the burglary was taking place.
Because the person was standing over one street away and the photo taken with the automatic settings that the phone came with, when the image was enlarged, the subject was blurred.
The store owner said that this is not the first time his store was burglarized and this time the thieves entered from the roof and the previous time they made a hole in a concrete wall to gain access.
He is not the only person experiencing these type of burglaries because most people know that the people making the cement blocks make more than the normal amount of blocks from a sack of cement and that makes the blocks very weak.
Editor, I pointed out to the man that if he had security cameras on his premises, he could have gotten better images/videos of the perpetrators and possibly be notified immediately while the burglary was happening.
I would like to advise people that instead of depending on law enforcement alone to solve crimes, they could also assist tremendously in protecting their building. There a lot of stores selling security system, but at four times the original cost. I believe that this deters lots of people from buying security systems.
There is security system that includes four cameras and one recorder that records over five hundred hours of video. Along with that, it has a feature that allows you to be anywhere and you could view your building via the security cameras once the system is hooked up to the internet and you have internet access.
The cost for that is approximately US$200 in America but here the price is way above that. Some systems also take picture of any movement and email it to you immediately. As I pointed out, most of the CCTV (Close Circuit Television) cameras are auto focus but some of them are manual focus with a screw at the side of the camera that could be adjusted to capture images at a particular point.
Those with auto focus take a some time to focus and by the time it focuses, the image/subject is out of the camera view so it is far better to purchase a camera with manual focus.
Finally, Editor, many people with mobile phone have cameras and they use it for their personal use. I would advise them that they should start taking picture of those who they know and find some means of storing them. One of the best methods is to email it to someone or even to yourself. That way the image could be retrieved years after.
The reason I am saying this is because over the years, lots of domestic murders have taken place and lots of time a proper photo of the person cannot be located for the police and media and with all the technology available, more could be done. Even if someone is between a group of people, the picture could be enlarged with hardly any loss of quality of the picture.
In another letter I will get into details about enhancing videos and photographs that almost anyone could do on their own and installing of CCTV cameras.
Sahadeo Bates

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