Big Brother gets bigger as Cape Town's arsenal of security cameras grows

The City of Cape Town’s transport management centre in Goodwood serves as the cinema, a 24-hour live stream from 1,600 CCTV cameras installed around the city.

In addition to the 159 new cameras planned for public transport interchanges and bus stations this year, the city adds an average of 30 to 40 cameras annually, according to metro police superintendent Kevin Cole. “It’s passive surveillance: analytics does the monitoring for you with less human error, then it draws an operator’s attention to dispatch officers. It’s the world’s most boring movie ... they’re constantly observing, constantly recording.”

“The camera on its own does nothing, it must be linked to a response,” Smith said, adding that 278 neighbourhood watch groups communicate with the transport management centre via WhatsApp.Cape Town is the only city in the country to use a computer-aided dispatch system, which allows operators to better co-ordinate responses by comparing where a crime was reported to where police are situated.

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