News Forum - CCTV across Phuket to be integrated as part of “Phuket Crime-Free”

[Thaiger]

Phuket Governor Narong launched a new initiative earlier this week called “Phuket Crime-Free.” As part of the initiative, Phuket officials are making some innovations on the island province’s CCTV networks. CCTV networks across Phuket will now be integrated into one system. On Tuesday, there was a mass signing of an MoU between agencies and government offices involved. This included 12 municipalities, six tambon administrative organisations, the Phuket Provincial Administrative Organisation (PPAO), and others.   All the agencies involved are responsible for maintaining the CCTV networks already under their purview, and they must help make available connections for all other agencies to […]

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[Soidog]

The Thais really do like their headline grabbing initiatives and “Hubs”. I can only assume the authorities come up with these things as they either think the public believe it, or more likely they can apply for central government grants and skim off the top, middle and bottom. Either way, I’ll bet this will never amount to anything and in a year or two some other catchy headline grabbing initiative will be launched. Why can’t they present hard found evidence and analysis of a problem. Prioritise actions with the largest impact and publish the stages and steps to be taken along with quarterly progress reports? Yeah dream on!
 

How’s Thailand 4.0 doing by the way?