Wednesday, 7 May 2008
Why are we asking this now?
This is one man's view of how effective CCTV has been so far: "It's been an utter fiasco: only 3 per cent of crimes were solved by CCTV. There's no fear of CCTV. Why don't people fear it? (They think) the cameras are not working." This is not some disgruntled or ill-informed citizen talking. The speaker is Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville, head of the Visual Images, Identifications and Detections Office (Viido) at New Scotland Yard, speaking this week at a security World Conference.
Naturally, the opponents of CCTV, or those who just want a stick to beat the Government with, fell in behind the Chief Inspector. "Yet again the Government manage to achieve the worst of both worlds. The current unfocussed approach to CCTV impinges on privacy whilst doing little to improve public safety," the Conservative Shadow Home Secretary David Davis said yesterday.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/the-big-question-are-cctv-cameras-a-waste-of-money-in-the-fight-against-crime-822079.html
