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CTA to speed up security camera installation

 

By Jon Hilkevitch Tribune reporter

 

12:17 p.m. CDT, June 20, 2011

The CTA will accelerate the installation of security cameras at rail stations to fight crime on the system, transit officials announced today.

 

A total of about 3,000 high-definition video cameras will be deployed by the end of the year, up from about 1,500 cameras now, CTA president Forrest Claypool said at a news conference at the Halsted station on the Orange Line.

 

Claypool said the surveillance cameras will serve as a deterrence to crime as well as "catch thieves and hoodlams in the act."

 

"We will saturate our system with cameras," he said.

 

The speeded-up installation is being facilitated by $16 million in federal homeland security grants and elimination of "red tape" in hiring vendors to do the installation work, he said.

 

Cameras helped lead to the arrest of 69 criminals on the CTA system last year, officials said.

 

More Chicago police officers will also be assigned to the CTA in "Wolfpack patrols," said Chicago police Lieutenant John Wittenberg of the public transit section.

 

Hoodlams...

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