by BIANCA KATHRICE B. BERNARDO
University of Santo Tomas Journalism program
MANILA—BY the first week of October, the periphery of the 21-hectare University of Santo Tomas will have a semblance of closed circuit television cameras found in the streets of major cities in China.
This is after officials of Barangay 471, Zone 46 have purchased four more CCTV camera units, worth a total of PhP100,000, recently to beef up efforts against criminality.
One of these four new CCTV cameras will be placed in Santander St., which barangay officials say had the highest incidence of robbery and hold up cases since 2008.
The three other streets where CCTV cameras will be set up are Navarra, Asturias and Antonio streets, said Councilman Armando Ramirez.
The barangay currently has four existing CCTV cameras, two of those are affixed in Rosarito St. and the other two are placed in Santander and Juaning streets —all of which are connected to a television inside the Brgy. Hall located in Navarra St.
In Santander St. alone, there have been 25 reported cases of theft and robbery that struck at students since last January.
Suspects to those crimes such as Salisi, Basag Kotse and Dugo-Dugo gangs were caught and are currently detained at Precinct 4 in Balik-Balik Street.
Brgy. 471, Zone 46 is where UST, University of Perpetual Help-Manila, and lots of food and computer establishments are found. (219 words)
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