Guangzhou police on December 10 informed that over the past two years they have set up 140,000 new video surveillance points, making the sites under monitors totaled 240,000. And a video monitoring system to monitor the public security throughout the city for 24 hours has been set up.
It is learned that the video monitoring system has provided crucial clues for many major cases in Guangzhou. Since 2006, with the help of the system, the Guangzhou police have uncovered over 5,700 clues, solved more than 3,400 cases and captured over 4,300 criminal suspects.
With the basic completion of the system, crimes have been effectively reduced, and the local satisfaction with public security has greatly increased.
According to the latest survey, 68% of citizens are satisfied with the system, and 70% of those surveyed evaluated the "install and restore the cameras, form the surveillance network" as effective. As a result, the project has become one of several that have received the highest ratings in Guangzhou.
By People's Daily Online
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