Hong Kong to link private mall cameras to police surveillance network: Chris Tang

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Hong Kong police are negotiating to connect private shopping-centre CCTV systems to the force’s expanding smart surveillance network. Security chief Chris Tang said the integration is intended to help tackle crime, but did not identify the malls involved.

Hong Kong police are in the final stages of talks to connect security cameras at private shopping centres to the force’s expanding smart surveillance network aimed at tackling crime, the security chief has revealed. Speaking on a television programme on Sunday, Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung said authorities were in discussions with private shopping centres to integrate their closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems, without naming the malls involved. “In fact, we see that in some...