‘Cameras installation meant to enhance security’
THE security cameras being installed in all the provincial headquarters and cities are meant to enhance security, Home Affairs Ministry Public Relations Officer Nephas Chifuta has said.
Currently, the Ministry of Home Affairs is installing security cameras in all the provincial headquarters, cities, borders areas and sensitive places to enhance security in the country.
He told the Daily Nation in Livingstone that there was nothing unusual about the exercise.
“We are installing security cameras in all 10 Provincial Headquarter in Zambia and again we are also installing the cameras in the cities and besides that, we are also mindful of installing the same security cameras in all the sensitive places.
“The idea behind is that we would want to ensure that we enhance security of the people in the country and also the security of properties owned by either the government or private individuals,” he said.
He added, “Once we roll out this programme to all the provincial headquarters, border areas and the cities, then with possibly the improvement in the resource base, we may also consider doing the same program in all the districts.”
Mr Chifuta said that the ministry in phase one has targeted provincial headquarters, border areas and all the cities.
“So for the Copperbelt, we are going to install security cameras in Ndola, being the provincial headquarters for the Copperbelt and also Kitwe being a city. We are going to have the national headquarters for the safe city in Lusaka.
“This facility will be able to watch over all the cameras that will be across the country and those that will be installed in the provincial headquarters and cities…those will only be monitoring the security activities within their provincial headquarters or the cities,” he said.
Mr Chifuta noted that the cameras would be able to backtrack and check if an incidence happened in the night adding that officers would still be able to identify the person who has committed the crimes.
“For Southern Province, we are going of course to install the cameras in Choma being the provincial headquarters and also we are going to put the cameras in Livingstone being a city. We would want a situation where people whether they’re moving in the middle of the night or moving in the day, they feel secured all the time,” Mr Chifuta explained.
“The idea is we do not want a situation where a crime has been committed and we have no clue. Our cameras will be able to help us identify the people that would have committed the crime and besides that again, we are also going to remove the presence of traffic officers on our roads. The cameras will be doing the work,” he said.