In the 14th issue of Grid travel magazine, writer Nina Unlay mentions a visit to Davao’s Public Safety Security Command Center.
There you can view real-time footage from 173 CCTV cameras that can zoom in up to one kilometer, or “close enough to know what a stranger is having for lunch.”
At the PSSCC, she writes, video operators sit stagnant behind a long gray desk, “rapidly zooming in and out, moving right and left, screening for anything in their city that is out of place.”
The story was written before the Davao City blast on Sep 2, 2016, that took the lives of 15 people and injured more than 60 others.
While the video operators were unable to detect the incident before it happened, they were able to identify suspects involved in the blast with the help of CCTV footage.
