The Penang Island City Council (MBPP) and the Malaysia Association of Local Authorities today jointly organised a programme, called the ‘Enforcement Brainstorming Session for Traffic Offenses identified through CCTVs’.
Some police personnel, local government staff members and representatives of other relevant agencies were present at the opening ceremony at the Jen Hotel in George Town.
It was officiated by state Local Government, Housing, Town and Country Planning Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo.
The two-day event, from today to Feb 21, will highlight the significance of closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) in identifying traffic offenses across the state, and how important a tool it is to assist enforcement bodies to nab and summon the offenders.
It was learnt that there are a total of 1,217 CCTVs in Penang (island and mainland), with a total of RM80.3 million spent by both the local councils to materialise this initiative.
Also present during the opening ceremony were MBPP mayor Datuk Yew Tung Seang and MBPP secretary Datuk A. Rajendran.
Story by Kevin Vimal
Pix by Lee Jia Ying