RM200,000 more for each speed camera because of training, says govt


KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 22 The home ministry told Parliament currently which teaching policemen here how to make use of dual models of speed trap cameras accounted for a huge disproportion of over RM200,000 per section paid for by Malaysia compared with prices in a United States.
Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop
Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop pronounced a suppliers had supposing training to policemen here as well as for maintenance of a cameras used to locate speeding motorists.
Earlier today, an opposition lawmaker demanded Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein insist a unbending cost inequality of over RM200,000 per section in dual models of speed trap cameras for a military it had purchased 17 years ago.
According to market prices then, a Laser Trucam indication would have cost only US$ 5,000 (RM15,300) a section whilst a Laser Digicam indication would only be US$ 1,000 more, during US$ 6,000, Pokok Sena MP Datuk Mahfuz Omar said.
These prices have been reported to have been paid for by military departments in a United States to a suppliers.
In his answer to Parliament, a emissary apportion did not yield a detailed breakdown of a training costs.
While he pronounced which a contracts for a cameras were awarded through an open proposal he did not exhibit a name of a supplier.
"The disproportion in cost in between ours as well as a ones in a US is since they have been manufacturers whilst you import a cameras in.
"There is an component of training supposing by a supplier to a police, maintenance as well as additionally a dual year warranty," pronounced Abu Seman.
On Monday, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein pronounced a military had a sum of 124 speed trap cameras worth RM23.5! million , which was first bought in 1995.
"The cost for any section is as follows: a) Laser Digicam indication during a sum of 85 units with a cost of RM173,925 per unit; as well as b) Laser Trucam indication during a sum of 39 units with a cost of RM223,500 per unit," Hishammuddin pronounced in a created reply to Jerai MP Mohd Firdaus Jaafar's subject in Parliament upon a sum number of speed trap cameras owned by a military force as well as a cost of any unit.
The sovereign supervision not long ago proposed a Automated Enforcement System (AES), a controversial scheme with cameras to locate speeding motorists as well as those who kick a trade lights.
The 831 AES cameras will be commissioned by dual in isolation companies as well as a management of a operation complement will upheld over to a Road Transport Department within 5 years.
Earlier this month, Deputy Home Minister Datuk Wira Abu Seman Yusop was reported revelation Parliament which military would go on to make use of their mobile speed trap cameras despite a introduction of a AES.
The AES cameras, which have received most opposition from a public, have been in their pilot phase, with 14 commissioned in Perak as well as a Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur as well as Putrajaya as well as Selangor despite a latter state's Pakatan Rakyat supervision saying it is opposed to a privatised fine system.
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