Mandaue City market to set up security cameras

THE revamped Mandaue City market will feature closed-circuit TV cameras worth P2.5 million placed on strategic areas to help guards and police secure the area, market administrator Musoline Suliva said yesterday.

Suliva said security personnel will monitor the market through 16 closed-circuit TV cameras.

He said they will seek police augmentation when the market opens on Dec. 18.

A proposed city ordinance mandates the installation of closed-circuit TV or video cameras in the premises of private and public establishments and public places for security reasons.

Councilor Demetrio Cortes Jr., who authored the ordinance, said only those establishments having capitalization of P5 million and above are required to install security cameras including public areas.

The ordinance will be reviewed on second reading in today’s City Council session, Cortes told reporters yesterday..

“Many acts of criminality go unreported and unsolved due to lack of evidence pointing towards the identity of the perpetuators of various crimes,” he said.

Cortes said new technologies were available to address security problems.

Violators will be given 30 days to comply. Noncompliance will result in a P5,000 fine, Cortes said. Reporter Jucell Marie P. Cuyos