More surveillance cameras planned for Samui to boost security

The mayor of Samui municipality, Ramnet Jaikway, has said that the number of surveillance cameras will soon reach three thousand. This will more than double the current amount of one thousand three hundred. Three hundred of the current cameras are operated by the municipality.

He has also said that authorities operating public transport services as well as owners of relevant businesses would be invited to attend a meeting to work out joint security measures and in light of the recent car bomb in Central Festival that will include the inspection of vehicles going to and from the island.

Furthermore an inspection of the records of around two hundred thousand people staying and working on the island will also be carried out, he noted that the island has around sixty thousand registered residents and around three thousand tourists arrive on the island each day.

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