Using the death of Hamas commander, Mahmud al-Mabhuh, as an excuse, Dubai has said that their 25,000 CCTV cameras are not enough in the fight against terrorism and plan to add more.

… “surveillance needs to be ramped up to meet the growing requirements of an expanding city,” Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan told The National newspaper.

“We need to work according to a well-studied strategic plan and not only react to events as they come along… We will have cameras everywhere,” said Khalfan of the 136-million-dollar (110-million-euro) project.

Officials in Dubai were able to review over 1,700 hours of video to piece together what happened to Dahi Khalfan. Presumably, they believe more cameras would prevent something like this from happening in the future. Considering that this happened in a hotel room where cameras aren’t allowed, it wouldn’t prevent another murder. It would only identify them quicker.