Lee Ming Han (15), 2nd Entry, Comment on Joshua Leong's Entry.

I agree with what my fellow classmate, Joshua Leong, have said in his entry. Joshua said that the use of CCTV Surveillance watches over the town or city and criminals can be caught easily. It also serves as an evidence that the criminals had acted foolishly. With this in mind, the criminals will think twice before acting, thus decreasing the crime rate. I however disagree that we can identify the criminals just from the CCTV surveillance, as this really depends where these cameras are installed at, and how good it is in terms of the quality and how far it can zoom. If an owner decides to install cheap CCTVs, identifying criminals will not be that easy.


I disagree that Singapore should not install CCTVs. Even though Singapore is a small country compared to The Big Apple, New York, Singapore's crime rate may also be lower than New York. However, we Singaporeans cannot take things for granted and forget about all these safety precautions. As the saying goes, "Prevention is better than cure", therefore we should actually implement the CCTV Surveillance idea to furthermore bring down the crime rate. I also disagree that the CCTVs should only be placed in banks and important places as mentioned by Joshua. Even though Singapore may be small, we have a large and fearful Police Force that strikes fear to many thieves, and thus many thefts and crimes are mostly committed in the heartlands such as household flats and under the void decks of flats, many break-ins are also common within the private estates as well. Therefore the CCTVs installed in banks are usually there to frighten off and prevent bank robberies. With this said, CCTV Surveillance should be installed around flats and under void decks, not only focusing the banks, as there are many reported cases where loan sharks vandalise the public lifts,neighbours flats and the walls of the void deck.