Saturday, October 20, 2007
UK CCTV Surveillance Doesn't Work
With one CCTV camera for every twelve people in the UK, 80 per cent of footage is of such poor quality that the cameras are mostly used to catch motorists instead of criminals.
This is the conclusion of a report, 18 months in the making, by the government's own Home Office officials, who say the majority of cameras are only useful to keep an eye on people for slips, trips, falls and staff crime.
The "real time" roving CCTV cameras which are the heart of the network are often useless for crime detection, despite the naive belief of the general public that they make the streets safer.
Officials do not even know how many CCTV cameras there are.
Government and police chiefs want to extend the network which monitors British citizens to cover all "public space".
See also: BRITAIN IS NOW A SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY
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This is the conclusion of a report, 18 months in the making, by the government's own Home Office officials, who say the majority of cameras are only useful to keep an eye on people for slips, trips, falls and staff crime.
The "real time" roving CCTV cameras which are the heart of the network are often useless for crime detection, despite the naive belief of the general public that they make the streets safer.
Officials do not even know how many CCTV cameras there are.
Government and police chiefs want to extend the network which monitors British citizens to cover all "public space".
See also: BRITAIN IS NOW A SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY
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Labels: Crime, Freedom, Labour, Surveillance, UK
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