Originally posted by ^tamago^:
[b]Source of MRT suicide clip footage a
mystery
Wednesday April 25, 2007
Derrick A Paulo
[email protected]
More than two months after clips of two suicides on MRT tracks were
posted on the Internet, setting Netizens abuzz, the case of the
unauthorised SMRT recording has ended without any conclusive source
of the leak.
The police had conducted a probe and submitted their findings to
SMRT, but "the person identified ... is not an SMRT (employee), nor
from the other agencies (Land Transport Authority and the police)
that have access to the footage," said an SMRT spokesperson.
However, Today understands the person used to have a working link
with SMRT.
Still, "no criminal offence has been disclosed" based on police
investigations, a police spokesperson told Today.
The police, who interviewed the 16-year-old blogger who had put the
clips on his website, have also told him that no charges will be
pressed.
"They only asked me down (to the police station) because they were
curious how I got the videos," wrote the teen in his blog.
The incidents occurred at Yishun and Admiralty stations.
SMRT has been looking into the police findings since the start of
March, but now its investigations into the circulation of the
closed-circuit television footage (CCTV) are over.
"We have reviewed our processes to control access to such material.
This has already been completed and implemented," said the SMRT
spokesperson. Now, "access to CCTV footage is only upon
authorisation by one designated senior member of the
company".
Meanwhile, there will be changes to make areas around MRT and LRT
stations barrier-free over the next five years.
The LTA is installing road facilities for the less mobile within a
400-metre radius of all stations, following a successful trial at
Simei MRT station late last year.
The entire project will cost $60 million and will be implemented
first in mature estates such as Redhill and Commonwealth.
http://www.todayonline.com/pda/185048ag.htm[/b]
i thoguth pple ask for barriers? and they go and make it barrier
free some more.make it easier for pple to jump arh? 
