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Many myths surround CCTV cameras and their use. Phrases such as Big Brother and George Orwell’s 1984 are always brought up when they are discussed. However, no-one actually knows exactly how many CCTV cameras are spying on the UK as the amount has never been recorded.
This is where the unreliable myths roll in, starting with the most commonly repeated figure that there are more than 4.2 million cameras, or one for every 14 citizens. That ‘fact’, which was based on a dubious calculation from the number of cameras in London’s Putney High Street in 2002, has found its way into nearly every discussion or report mentioning CCTV since.
Did you know that the other regularly quoted statistic (that people pass an average of 300 cameras per day) is almost certainly false, too? Until a Home Office project to count all the cameras in one UK county gives a more definitive figure later this year, we just don’t know. Almost all footage caught by CCTV cameras is automatically destroyed after a month anyway.
Meanwhile, police, council and security organisations all attest to the use and benefits of CCTV cameras, as you will find when you purchase a system from CCTV Surveillance Ltd. From cameras to DVRs, which allow continuous high quality digital CCTV recording for days and weeks at a time, we have it all.
A local authority has confirmed the effectiveness of CCTV by spending more than a million pounds over the next half-decade on cameras, despite the fact that the current economic climate is putting the squeeze on council budgets.
Newspapers the Sunday Telegraph and the Sunday Mirror stole a march on the palace and on Westminster by revealing ahead of time details of the Queen’s speech. An identity documents bill, scrapping ID cards and the National Identity Register, were three bills to be introduced by the coalition government, according to a leaked document. The incoming Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition will review the use of CCTV, it was announced when the Queen last week delivered her speech, which traditionally opens a new parliamentary session.
Possibly the worst crime attempt in the world by a gang involving a ‘cat-stuck-up-a-tree’ type of episode was foiled with the help of CCTV. The owner of a family home in the north-eastern suburb of Heaton chased two members of a suspected burglary gang, who scrambled out through a skylight. A check of CCTV revealed there were in fact three intruders. They scarpered upstairs and the owner watched as they slithered down the roof, jumped 30ft (9m) and ran off.
Norwich is the latest city to install crime busting CCTV cameras in its historic shopping quarter after being awarded a Home Office grant of £33,000 aimed at improving security in towns and cities throughout the country. This will now fund three cameras to police the shopping area, and the Norwich Lanes Traders’ Association has applied for permission to install them. It is hoped the cameras will help improve safety for everyone in the area by helping to tackle anti-social behaviour and other problems related to drink or drugs.
CCTV has recorded the theft from an art gallery of two prints by cult artist Banksy worth more than £16,000. Police are searching for a man and woman who smashed their way by using a street sign into Art Republic in New Compton Street, London. CCTV cameras caught the man entering the shop and grabbing two prints while the woman stayed in the street as a look-out. They then made off on foot.
CCTV footage is helping police in their investigation of a missing office worker in Edinburgh. CCTV cameras show 38-year-old Suzanne Pilley just outside her office in Thistle Street at 0855 BST on 4 May, the day she went missing. Lothian and Borders Police have now launched a murder inquiry.
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Thieves stealing copper wiring from a power substation caused a power surge that resulted in at least 70 domestic fires in Bolton, Greater Manchester. This was the second theft of wiring from a United Utilities substation in Bolton in ten days, which left 400 homes without power. Televisions, DVD recorders, lights, fridges and freezers were mostly affected. There were small fires, smoke, smells of burning and overheating.