KUALA LUMPUR – Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) will install more than 100 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras around the Kuala Lumpur Wholesale Market in Selayang in a bid to step up enforcement and curb illegal activities by immigrants in the area.
Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said the CCTVs, to be equipped with artificial intelligence features like facial recognition technology, will enable monitoring of the wholesale market to be carried out more efficiently.
“We still find some traders, involving illegal immigrants, carrying out businesses outside the wholesale market’s fence and along the walkways, which affects traffic flow in the area.
“The CCTVs will be installed inside and outside the market for enforcement monitoring by DBKL… we will upgrade it from time to time,” he said at the Mural and Graffiti Competition prize-presentation ceremony at the wholesale market today.
Meanhwhile, Annuar said the construction of a 200-bed capacity hostel for the wholesale market's workers is completed and used from next month.
“We will consult with the market traders on the distribution quota among workers who need this facility,” he said.
He said rental fees for the facility will be as low as RM150 per month and that, apart from making it easier for workers to commute to work, will also attract more local workers, including from outside the capital.
Earlier, Annuar spent almost an hour surveying the transformation of the wholesale market, which is now cleaner, brighter and free of foreign workers, following improvements in terms of management and governance.
Among upgrades are the addition of control room workstations, passes using QR codes for wholesalers and their workers, fences and motorcycle parking areas. – Bernama, November 23, 2020
