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Police in Hampshire bizarrely were called in to guard an unlocked high street bank during a weekend. Officers were called to the HSBC branch in Tadley, between Newbury and Basingstoke, on a Saturday after a member of the public arrived to find the door open, but no staff inside. Police guarded the bank until the keyholder arrived. They said everything inside the branch appeared to be in order and nothing had been taken.
Police north of the border are banking on CCTV footage to help them solve two robberies committed by the same team using the same stolen car. The suspects rammed two local stores in different locations in south-central Scotland in the space of a day. Officers said they were studying CCTV footage in an effort to gather further evidence. Police have appealed for anyone who witnessed the raid or has seen the Landrover involved to come forward.
CCTV technology has helped to ward off a daring night raid and has already led to an arrest. Police from the Cheshire area were alerted by CCTV operators and caught up with a gang (who raided a haulage firm) who had met up in a car park near Ellesmere Port, on Merseyside, just before 1.30 in the morning. One man was later arrested by officers.
Modern art and CCTV cameras… not something you see in the same sentence often. However, that is exactly what is going on with the new exhibition at the Tate Modern. "It is posing a question about the politics of spectatorship," said Simon Baker, Tate’s newly appointed photography curator, continuing: "We are raising questions about boundaries, about technology.
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.
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.