With the Tokyo Olympics on the horizon, railway companies in the Greater Tokyo Area began patrols with detection dogs that sniff out explosives at major stations on the 19th, and increased the number of remote cameras that can monitor stations and trains. We are strengthening our vigilance against the targeted terrorism.
The terrorist alerts of railway companies following the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics have been gradually strengthened toward the opening ceremony on the 23rd of this week, and JR East will detect explosives at major stations in the Tokyo metropolitan area from the 19th. I started guarding the dogs.
The patrol will be carried out by a trainer and a guard who operate a detection dog, and if a suspicious person is found, the guard will call out and ask for baggage inspection in cooperation with the police at a temporary inspection site inside the station. I will.
If you refuse the inspection, you will be asked to leave the station, and the same warning will be given at stations in the Tokyo metropolitan area of the Tokaido Shinkansen and stations of the Tokyo Metro.
Railway companies are also increasing the number of cameras that can remotely monitor stations and trains.
Of these, JR East is constantly monitoring at the security center, and if there is information such as suspicious objects, security guards will rush in, and in an emergency, the police will be able to immediately transmit the video and strengthen the alert. I will.
New cameras are also introduced at railway companies Remotely watch out for stations and trains
Railway companies have been preparing to increase the number of cameras that can remotely guard stations and trains in addition to the conventional security cameras in line with the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics.
JR East will install more than 8,000 cameras capable of remote monitoring at 110 major stations and railway lines, as well as at important facilities such as substations and depots, and security companies will monitor the images sent to the security center.
In addition, you can check the image of the camera on the chest of the guards who patrol the inside of the Shinkansen at the center.
JR Tokai has introduced a system that automatically sends the image inside the train to the command center when the emergency button is pressed on all trains on the Tokaido Shinkansen.
Private railways have installed new cameras that can send images using the radio waves of mobile phones to all vehicles with more than 1,200 Tokyu Corporation.
The cameras are installed right next to the fluorescent lights on the ceiling so that multiple cameras can see the entire interior of the car.
When a driver or conductor informs you of an abnormality wirelessly, you can specify the vehicle based on the contact from the command center, check the image inside the vehicle, and immediately consider countermeasures.
Kazuhiro Kitamura, a technician from the Vehicle Planning Division of Tokyu Corporation, said, "With a conventional camera, you could not check the image unless you took out the recording medium from the vehicle. The new camera speeded up the response, so you can use the railway with confidence during the Olympics. I want you to do it. "