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Video surveillance to cover entire Beijing Reuters \|\| May 23, 2006 China will build a video surveillance network to cover the entire capital to ensure security, a newspaper reported on Friday, with some government departments to be given 'unfettered access' to video footage. Beijing, host of the 2008 Summer Olympics and currently equipped with 263,000 surveillance cameras, will install more in public areas by the end of next year and issue new regulations for the storage and sharing of video footage, the Beijing Youth Daily said. "There are parts of the city vulnerable to security and crime that have problems in that they don't have cameras or don't share footage," the paper said. By the end of 2006, exits and entrances to Beijing's "key areas", subway stations and major venues will be fitted with cameras equipped with facial recognition technology. Operators of surveillance cameras at pedestrian bridges, underground walkways, restaurants and hotels would be required to keep 30 days of footage. Cameras at major roads, public transport stations and on subway carriages must have over seven days footage. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com The report follows an announcement last month by Shenzhen's mayor that the southern city bordering Hong Kong will install 200,000 surveillance cameras in a bid to lower its crime rate. Cameras are just one way China monitors its citizens. Official media reported in April that the country has recorded details of more than 96 per cent of its 1.3 billion people on a police database, supplementing Internet and other state-sanctioned surveillance. An estimated 30,000 Web police monitor the surfing habits of China's 110 million Internet users and restrict access to Web sites and blogs posting sensitive material. Beijing, which has vowed to do all it can to ensure a trouble-free Summer Games, last month unveiled a security training programme with a display of police skills including a simulated hostage rescue, SWAT team drills and a TV-style quiz show. About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Video surveillance to cover entire Beijing

Reuters || May 23, 2006

China will build a video surveillance network to cover the entire capital to ensure security, a newspaper reported on Friday, with some government departments to be given 'unfettered access' to video footage.

Beijing, host of the 2008 Summer Olympics and currently equipped with 263,000 surveillance cameras, will install more in public areas by the end of next year and issue new regulations for the storage and sharing of video footage, the Beijing Youth Daily said.

"There are parts of the city vulnerable to security and crime that have problems in that they don't have cameras or don't share footage," the paper said.

By the end of 2006, exits and entrances to Beijing's "key areas", subway stations and major venues will be fitted with cameras equipped with facial recognition technology.

Operators of surveillance cameras at pedestrian bridges, underground walkways, restaurants and hotels would be required to keep 30 days of footage. Cameras at major roads, public transport stations and on subway carriages must have over seven days footage.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

The report follows an announcement last month by Shenzhen's mayor that the southern city bordering Hong Kong will install 200,000 surveillance cameras in a bid to lower its crime rate.

Cameras are just one way China monitors its citizens.

Official media reported in April that the country has recorded details of more than 96 per cent of its 1.3 billion people on a police database, supplementing Internet and other state-sanctioned surveillance.

An estimated 30,000 Web police monitor the surfing habits of China's 110 million Internet users and restrict access to Web sites and blogs posting sensitive material.

Beijing, which has vowed to do all it can to ensure a trouble-free Summer Games, last month unveiled a security training programme with a display of police skills including a simulated hostage rescue, SWAT team drills and a TV-style quiz show.

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