Britons are far more in favour of closed circuit television (CCTV) to fight street crime as opposed to motoring offences, an ntl:Telewest Business survey carried out by YouGov revealed.
With one CCTV camera for every 14 people in the UK, Britons are caught on camera at least once every five minutes. Nevertheless, the majority (88 per cent) of the population are happy for CCTV to be used to fight crime.
Having discussed the functionality aspect of your CCTV security system, we will now look into the remaining two factors you should take into account when deciding whether to upgrade or replace.
With technology rapidly advancing in the develoment of CCTV security systems, the debate over whether or not to maintain, upgrade or replace aging electronic security systems rages on. Should you maintain the status quo by performing maintenance and repairs? Upgrade a system (or portions thereof)? Or just chuck it all and replace it?
This is not simply a technical question. For many it encompasses all areas of a security operation and requires consideration of a number of factors.
CCTV security cameras are to be placed in some town centre taxis to monitor passenger behaviour as part of a pilot scheme to help protect taxi drivers from abuse.
The pilot scheme is expected to start in December in time for the busy Christmas period using a number of CCTV cameras in black cabs and private hire taxis. There will be an evaluation of the success of the cameras in early 2007, after which talks will begin with taxi companies about how to extend the scheme further.
There is to be a massive expansion of CCTV coverage across Northern Ireland in a bid to cut crime with 87 new CCTV cameras established in 14 town centres. It has also emerged that police and the Northern Ireland Office are looking at the possibility of introducing mobile CCTV technology to tackle street violence.
The Government will invest £2m in the CCTV schemes, located in areas where there are long-standing problems with anti-social behaviour and crime.
In a bold move, Peterborough City Council plans to use its 135 CCTV cameras placed across the city to catch litter bugs in the act. Camera stills will be made public and residents will be asked to shop the culprits who will be handed a £75 fine.
The council already spends £1.65 million a year on fighting the city’s ever growing litter problem.
A businessman on holiday in Spain was able to alert police of a raid on his home in the UK because he’d invested in an expensive net-connected digital CCTV system. Engineering boss John Ellison, 52, watched the attack on his Lancaster home unfold on a laptop PC he’d taken on holiday with him to Malaga, Spain.
Councils across the UK are supplying householders with covert CCTV cameras so that they can amass evidence against nuisance neighbours. The devices are so small they can be hidden in pot plants or door frames and provide 24-hour surveillance to capture evidence of vandalism, threatening behaviour or abuse.
Councils in London, West Yorkshire, Northumberland and Dundee have introduced the schemes to help to secure antisocial behaviour orders, injunctions and criminal convictions. They follow government demands that local authorities crack down on antisocial behaviour.
A combination of newly installed CCTV cameras into fire engines, new powers protecting emergency workers and efforts to engage with youngsters in communities have led to a dramatic fall in the number of attacks on firefighters.
Three CCTV cameras were installed at the end of last year after figures revealed firefighters attempting to put out blazes and save lives were increasingly being targeted by armed thugs.
When you monitor your home or office with CCTV surveillance, it’s like you have an entire television network devoted to the safety of your home. CCTV broadcasts your security surveillance on a private network, but unlike broadcast television, all components within your network are connected through cables and wires.
Already popular in large public places where security is heightened, such as at airports or casinos, CCTV systems are becoming more and more widely used in private home settings as well.