Police to replace current red light cameras with new digital ones

The Straits Times reported that the police are replacing their old-school red light cameras, which use film, with modern digital ones.

They have put in an order - worth several million dollars - with a German company for 240 sets of these 11 megapixel cameras, which can take sharper images and be able to pick out offenders in multiple lanes at intersections. The cameras will also allow the police to download the pictures remotely instead of having to retrieve and process the film.

"By the first half of 2015, there will be some 240 digital red light and speed cameras installed islandwide," said a police spokesman.

The order for the new traffic cameras, which were tested here last year, was announced by German traffic solutions manufacturer Jenoptik earlier this week. Delivery of the cameras has already begun and is expected to be completed by the end of this year.

According to the company's press officer and Head of Communications and Marketing Britta Schell, her company has submitted a bid for another Singapore police tender for speed cameras that has yet to conclude.