CCTV is a common surveillance tool used in certain districts in Hong Kong recently due to anonymous “missile attacks”; hurting innocent pedestrians. In the past, surveillance cameras were mostly used in banks, shops or lifts, the purpose of being to minimize unsuspected crimes.
Recently, missiles with corrosive liquid were thrown off old buildings which don’t have latches to their terrace doors. The most recent incident happened on Temple Street in Yau Ma Tei where 20 people were injured and their clothes disintegrated. These unprecedented acts injured many culpable pedestrians. All the police have done is to urge the public to help arrest the offender and indicated this crime is very serious and cannot be tolerated at any costs.
Unfortunately, since the string of incidents doesn’t seem to have a particular target, they can be thrown off any buildings, at any districts, and can cover any area and hurting the whole society.
The police have also installed CCTV in selected buildings immediately. It is aimed to monitor and hoping to be able to catch the suspect. Though, sad to say, the CCTV has many shortage drawbacks, such as: videos can’t be intensely clear as it may intrude the privacy of individuals, in addition, due to the many big advertisement billboards with sharp bright lights does affect surveillance cameras causing them to have many blind spots.
What can we do to prevent these continuous absurd strikes? All we can hope for at the moment to that we can come up with a decent explanation after the stronger collaboration of the enforcement of CCTV officers.
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