Singapore installs hi-tech security at Causeway

PETALING JAYA: Singapore has installed a video analytics system at the Woodlands Checkpoint to help it identify many blacklisted travellers. It has also put in place systems that can detect biological threats and explosive-detection machines.
Facial recognition technology, systems that can detect biological threats and explosive-detection machines are some of the latest instalments at the Singapore-Johor Causeway, The Straits Times reported today.
"We have a shrinking manpower base, we have an ever-expanding number of travellers coming in, and people find new ways of trying to evade our checks," Singapore's Home Affairs and Law Minister K. Shanmugam was quoted as saying.
One of the latest equipment installed at its Malaysia-Singapore border is a walk-through system that releases puffs of air on an individual, which dislodges particles on clothing and human bodies to detect trace amounts of explosives and narcotics.
The system is a result of collaboration between Singapore and the United States Department of Homeland Security.