BY JUN RAMIREZ
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The Bureau of Immigration (BI) said it is installing more closed circuit television cameras in international airports to enhance passenger monitoring capability and prevent corruption among port personnel.
In a report to Immigration Commissioner Jaime Morente, BI port operations chief Grifton Medina disclosed that more than 100 CCTV cameras were already installed at Terminals 2 and 3 of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA), Mactan-Cebu International Airport (MCIA), and Clark International Airport (CIA).
He said the CCTVs operate 24 hours a day in all immigration counters at the arrival and departure areas of the four airports, where all activities and movements of people captured by the cameras are recorded on real time basis.
Medina added that rehabilitation of old CCTVs previously installed at the NAIA Terminal 1 will soon be undertaken in the second phase of the project, which will be followed by the putting up of new cameras in several other international ports.
Morente said these CCTVs are effective deterrents against corruption as their officers will now be discouraged to commit irregularities as all their actions will surely be caught on camera.
