“CCTVs can instantly provide answers to missing parts of a crime puzzle specially when investigators face a blank wall in unmasking the suspects.” Thus stressed Leyte (1st District) Rep. and Philippine Constitution Association president Ferdinand Martin “FM” G. Romualdez as he urged the government to focus more on the installation of CCTVs to deter crime.     Romualdez and former Surigao del Norte Rep. Robert Ace Barbers said CCTVs have been proven as an indispensable tool in solving crimes going by the discoveries of crimes and its perpetrators as captured live by CCTVs.

Barbers shared similar observation with Romualdez, saying “there’s no doubt by now that CCTV is the de-facto ‘Robo-cop with cameras’ that our security forces need right now.”

“Curbing crimes with cameras is the way to go and it’s a wise investment for the government,” Barbers, the Nacionalista Party (NP) spokesman, added.

Romualdez and Barbers proposed that CCTVs should be mandatory in all government and private buildings, major thoroughfares and busy city centers where people often converge, including dark corners and alleys where criminals naturally lurk.

They noted that grisly crimes committed in the last few weeks were solved with the aid of CCTVs, notably the killing by a Chinese national of his visiting girlfriend and the road rage of a Porche-driving Customs clerk who ended up shooting and mauling a young motorist.