CCTV

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1,000 cameras 'solve one crime'
CCTV camera in the Embankment, central London
London is one of the world's most monitored cities

Only one crime was solved by each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year, a report into the city's surveillance network has claimed.

The internal police report found the million-plus cameras in London rarely help catch criminals.

In one month CCTV helped capture just eight out of 269 suspected robbers.

David Davis MP, the former shadow home secretary, said: "It should provoke a long overdue rethink on where the crime prevention budget is being spent."

   
The Metropolitan Police has been extraordinarily slow to act to deal with the ineffectiveness of CCTV
David Davis MP

He added: "CCTV leads to massive expense and minimum effectiveness.

"It creates a huge intrusion on privacy, yet provides little or no improvement in security.

"The Metropolitan Police has been extraordinarily slow to act to deal with the ineffectiveness of CCTV."

Nationwide, the government has spent £500m on CCTV cameras.

But Det Sup Michael Michael McNally, who commissioned the report, conceded more needed to be done to make the most of the investment.

He said: "CCTV, we recognise, is a really important part of investigation and prevention of crime, so how we retrieve that from the individual CCTV pods is really quite important.

"There are some concerns, and that's why we have a number of projects on-going at the moment."

Among those projects is a pilot scheme by the Met to improve the way CCTV images are used.

A spokesman for the Met said: "We estimate more than 70% of murder investigations have been solved with the help of CCTV retrievals and most serious crime investigations have a CCTV investigation strategy."

Officers from 11 boroughs have formed a new unit which collects and labels footage centrally before distributing them across the force and media.

It has led to more than 1,000 identifications out of 5,260 images processed so far.

A Home Office spokeswoman said CCTVs "help communities feel safer".

 :lol:
Sevres them right

[earthboundmisfit]

they are watching yoouuuuuu

[Blasted]

Nowhere is safe in London   Can't even scratch your arse in public without a dozen cameras catching you in the act 

[Adam]

people who complain about the CCTV in england are like people who complain about speed cameras

shut up and shove it up your arse

[Blasted]

Not CCTV but quite entertaining to look at sometimes:

http://www.opentopia.com/hiddencam.php?seewhat=newest&country=&showmode=standard&screen=1

[Adam]

there's a BBC one of the road my university is on

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people who complain about the CCTV in england are like people who complain about speed cameras

shut up and shove it up your arse

Speed cameras and red light ones suck.

[Adam]

red light ones? whata are they?

people who are speeding deserve to be punished

[The_Chosen_One]

You even have to be careful with a webcam. If your internet connection is still open, but your computer is off, images will still be broadcast accross the web. People have been caught out heaps in this way.

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red light ones? whata are they?

people who are speeding deserve to be punished

The red light one take photos of cars that go through red lights problem is the cities use them to gain revenue by adjusting the time the lights are yellow.  As far as peed goes they do the same thing getting you for less and less of a margin and changing the speed limits on the roads a lot.  Do you drive?

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You even have to be careful with a webcam. If your internet connection is still open, but your computer is off, images will still be broadcast accross the web. People have been caught out heaps in this way.

I've seen some of those cases oops

[The_Chosen_One]

You even have to be careful with a webcam. If your internet connection is still open, but your computer is off, images will still be broadcast accross the web. People have been caught out heaps in this way.

I've seen some of those cases oops

It's one reason why I don't wanna get one. I'd like to do YT stuff, but not have any other shit posted on the net.

[Phlexor]

You even have to be careful with a webcam. If your internet connection is still open, but your computer is off, images will still be broadcast accross the web. People have been caught out heaps in this way.

I've seen some of those cases oops

It's one reason why I don't wanna get one. I'd like to do YT stuff, but not have any other shit posted on the net.

You can either unplug it or put something over the lens.

[TheoK]

people who complain about the CCTV in england are like people who complain about speed cameras

shut up and shove it up your arse

Speed cameras and red light ones suck.

 

[TheoK]

red light ones? whata are they?

people who are speeding deserve to be punished

Why? Did we have a popular vote on the speed limits? The Germans are allowed to drive as fast as they want on the Autobahn.