Shanghai trains to get cameras

SHANGHAI: In a bid to curb pick pocketing in subways, all local trains here will be fitted with surveillance cameras by the end of 2009, the police said yesterday.

"Each subway car will be installed with three cameras and each train with about 20 cameras. The aim is to leave no chance for pickpockets to get away," Feng Bo, an official of the rail traffic department of Shanghai's municipal public security bureau, was quoted as saying by a local news portal.

About 1,300 suspects were caught pick pocketing and stealing in the city's subway stations and public buses in the first 11 months of this year.