Someone has finally realised that the multitude of CCTV cameras installed all over the country, providing practically continuous coverage of everything we do, have nothing to do with crime reduction.
Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville said it was a “fiasco” that only 3 per cent of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV.
Unfortunately, in true government style, this means that they will throw more money at it.
Britain has more CCTV cameras than any other country in Europe. But Mr Neville is reported in The Guardian as saying that more training was needed for officers who often avoided trawling through CCTV images “because it’s hard work”.
Viido had launched a series of initiatives including a new database of images that will be used to track and identify offenders using software developed for the advertising industry ....... and building a national CCTV database that will hold images of convicted criminals and unidentified suspects.READ MORE at:-
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3877670.ece
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