Mounties to use video surveillance at G8 summit

January 30, 2002
Source: National Post
Original story - link verified on January 30, 2002
By Tom Blackwell

The RCMP plans to spend thousands of dollars a day to send continuous video surveillance footage out of the remote Kananaskis resort during this June's G8 summit. The force has ordered three satellite uplink trucks -- normally used by television stations to broadcast live from out-of-the-way places -- for 24-hour use before, during and after the summit in Alberta. The Mounties are tight-lipped about exactly how they plan to employ the pricey technology, but one broadcasting expert said the truck would probably feed pictures back to some kind of RCMP war room directing the massive security effort -- at a cost easily exceeding $10,000 a day per truck.

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