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Government Security

Malaysia police cameras go high-definition

By Xinghui Guo | 21 September 2011

With the authorities’ road cameras going high-definition (HD), motorists travelling over the speed limit will now have their registration numbers captured sharply—sometimes along with the driver’s and passenger’s faces.

Five HD cameras that cost about US$6000 and 36 speed detections were recently acquired and another 25 cameras are now being purchased, said Mohd Fuad Adb Latiff, Federal Traffic Deputy Chief.

The cameras and can take high resolution pictures of speeding vehicles from up to 1.2km away, travelling at a speed as fast as 320 km/h.

With each violating motorist, video evidence is collected, along with a high resolution image, summonses are sent out to vehicle owner within seven days—with the captured black and white image as proof.

With photographic evidence, the number of disputes against issued summonses has been reduced, said Latiff.

According to Latiff, there is an average of 2,475 motorists caught speeding each day.

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