August 24, 2009

What were they smoking - London surveillance cameras

A perfect idea of something that never should have been implemented. From the Beeb:
1,000 cameras 'solve one crime'
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 city spent 500 Million GBP (about $825 M smackers) on these cameras and the people to maintain and monitor them and this is the result. Idiots! The final line:
A Home Office spokeswoman said CCTVs "help communities feel safer".
That classic line: Our appearance of careful management is rather a careful management of apperances... Hat tip to BoingBoing for the link. Posted by DaveH at August 24, 2009 9:34 PM | TrackBack
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