The end of CCTV?

New research has shown that only one crime per year will be solved with the help of computer surveillance. Since the release of this information the public are in uproar over the excessive use of surveillance equipment in and around almost every city.

A local Chief Detective said officers should do more to make use of evidence captured by the cameras which are practically on almost every street corner around the country. The effectiveness of CCTV has clearly be pointed out with these statistics. CCTV cameras are not exactly the most popular subject with most of the English public. Why would we require CCTV if there is clearly no need for them – Where is the logic in computer surveillance? There is a unanamous dissapointment in the CCTV cameras around the country. How can they be this in-effective? There must be a solution. In my opinion it is only a matter of time before they have mobile phone tracking hooked up on all of us! OK – That may be a little over the top but it is logical to think that we are living in a big brother society right now.

Recent research has shown that the effectiveness of video surveillance is very useful in preventing cars being broken into and stolen. To help out with this problem people have been investing money into vehicle tracking devices which radically increases the chance of getting your car if it has been stolen. With little or no outcome the huge investment into video surveillance is an enormous amount of money to spend on something that fundamentally does not really work. What can we do? What is the value of keeping these cameras in our streets anymore? Is there much point in these CCTV cameras? Why don’t we just get rid of them all? You would think that no Government official would be thinking that the statistics would be as low as they are but then again I hope that they are planning for something to be done. Let’s see what happens..

The end of CCTV?

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