Hong Kong police to install 15 sets of CCTV cameras in Mong Kok, no mention of face recognition function
Hong Kong police will install 15 sets of security cameras in Mong Kok next month, as part of a trial run for a new surveillance programme targeting crime blackspots in the city. The devices to be installed in the commercial district in Kowloon will be used for testing the technicality of the police plan of setting up 2,000 new security cameras across the city for crime detection and prevention, the Security Bureau wrote in a paper submitted to the Legislative Council (LegCo) on Wednesday. Police identified various districts with high crime figures and high pedestrian flows and decided to insta...