Litterbugs caught in the act


A CCTV camera (below the loudspeaker on the left) helps enforcers to monitor the street at the Burma Road-Lorong Kuching junction while the loudspeakers are sometimes used to issue warnings to those who park their cars illegally. — Photos: LIM BENG TATT/The Star

WITH 767 surveillance cameras looking down at George Town’s streets, law enforcers now not only keep an eye out for traffic offenders and criminals but also litterbugs.

Penang Island City Council enforcers monitoring the scores of TV screens in the control room in Komtar can see them dumping big bags of rubbish almost every day.

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