The camera helps officers locate nests by displaying the way the animals came from and helps establish the speed and timing of rat activities in the area.
Officers did keep the camera on for up to a year to take photos of what they need.
The camera’s primary goal is… Because it’s so small, we placed it where an officer could n’t enter and watch. and sometimes the engagement comes when it’s dusk, at evening or the wee hours of the morning,” said Mr Mahyuddin.
Executive director Tan Guan Qun, who oversees the Rat Control Section’s activities, said that to eliminate animals, the group has to figure out their food supply.
Officers are dispatched to the area to look for potential foods sources, such as a business, when the team has information on squirrel sightings.
” The principle is that ( rats ) will find food sources. One of the food options are the recycling centers. So once you block them out, the drain, the covers (are ) all blocked, there should not be a food source to sustain the population. Even if of, this state, there is bird feeding, or one man throws litter here and there, the food supply will not be enough to support the infection.
There must be a constant meals source from there if you have a large infestation that will support 100 rats. So ( if ) you go by that logic… you cut off the fail, the food source, physically, naturally, the population will go over. “