Security technology is too expensive

Jun 07, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,

Our crime situation continues to haunt us and many people are investing heavily to protect their properties and lives and technology to identify criminals using alarms and security cameras amongst others. Most people installing CCTV (security) cameras would install the cameras at positions that make it impossible to identify someone unless the person could be recognised by his/her physical structure and in many cases, it’s impossible. People should not be fooled by what is shown in the CSI series, technology is not available as yet to enhance bad footage so in order to get a decent image, the camera must be very close.
It doesn’t matter if people could touch the cameras because if they do they are being recorded. The standard recording for most dvr is 24 frames per second (fps), that is like taking 24 four photos in a second and playing it back thus you get the videos and depending on the setting of the dvr, you could record 30 fps which is a far better quality and when replaying, there’s video editing programs available that could be used to scrutinize the videos properly to get the best images.
Editor, there’s many places that you could go to get different types of security system to purchase but the real shocker is when you query the prices. Believe it or not, these people are increasing the values of a security system by four times and those installing it are charging a tremendous amount to install. And when you look at the way they install the system, you start to wonder what the purpose for the cameras is because you could know that they wouldn’t get proper footages. If this government is serious about fighting crimes, they should get a mechanism in place to let citizens get security cameras at an affordable rate because the prices are jacked up tremendously. If almost everyone could install a security system it would enhance the fight against crime greatly.
Take the recent crime that is committed against the M&M snackette. The robbers had on face mask to prevent people from getting their identify but I don’t believe that they would walk from their home with their face blocked to commit a crime and if they do that they would draw attention to them. I’m quite sure the police will be looking at houses nearby with security cameras to see if they have footage of the criminals passing before/after they commit the crime. In order to help the fight against crime, let security system be more easily obtainable, so that many people could get cameras and people could help one another.
Sahadeo Bates

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