CCTV can monitor more effectively than bobby on the beat
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A brief local television news item demonstrated that unasserted facts are flying around concerning CCTV cameras. The feature, broadcast from the Midlands, repeated often-stated but rarely checked statistics like there are four and a half million cameras in total; and that there is one camera for about every 15 people in the United Kingdom. On the former point – since no official body has in fact counted them, we just do not know.
Many things we associate with ‘the spy in the sky’ were discussed in the very influential 1999 book The Maximum Surveillance Society: The Rise of 
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.
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.
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.
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