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   ru_anderson from Herts says:

   May 9, 19:36

   there have been millions made on this ie selling inadaquate quality cameras and survailence systems to security and in particular government departments including local government.
   
   Our privacy and civil liberties are at risk from greed and paradoxically they have SO FAR been saved by it too.
   
   camera quality has improved and now with a centralised database and the right software we truly have big brother being born.
   
   Its time to kill it in its infancy.
   
   Individuals should have the right to video their premises - there should be no coertion to share or link these cameras - and central government should get back to the business of governance with aid of civilservants and not simply playing lapdogs and cronies to bought (un)civil servents and overpaid middelmen posing as consultants.
   
   get rid of the centralised survailence systems.
   
   put the millions into more properly paid and decently trained and audited cops on the street.
   
   The high tech inteligence is usefull but let the millitary pay for it as they are the ones using it.
   
   Or are is terrorisim and forign policy now a matter for the plod?
   
   Enough spin. Stop subsidising US tech companies with uk holding addresses.

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   mr england from herts says:

   May 9, 19:17

   cameras never lie.but governments do..

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   steven from lincoln says:

   May 9, 19:06

   i think cctv is good as i think that it works very well and if the police officers do not like to sit throught watching cctv footage when a crime as been donr then they should not been in the job

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   Rob from M/cr says:

   May 9, 19:00

   I work with CCTV each & everyday
   you would be so suprised if you actually knew how poor most of it is !
   
   Take it from me dont worry too much
   if big brother is watching he/she must have bloody good eyes.

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   Jimmy from Northampton says:

   May 9, 17:35

   Innocent until proven guilty ?
   
   A person with a lifelong clean record having no previous convictions of any kind, can if the security teams think fit have his/her identity placed on the list of suspects.
   Consequently where ever he/she goes , shopping, to the library, to a show,
   ,to see his/her doctor or to hospital, in fact where ever he/she goes he/she will be a target, and some person in that particular establishment, weather a manager or general dogs body will be notified of his/her presence.and the target will be watched. You can imagine what effect this could have in a Medical Centre,!!!
   Unlike the book "1984" by George Orwell this is not fiction, it is absolutely true,and is something that needs to be addressed now before this flagrant breach of our liberty gets out of hand. A camera operator with a peronal grudge against an innocent man could if he wished defame that victim to a point where his/her
   life would become
   unbearable.
   What is the true cost of CCTV, how much has each arrest made as a direct of its use been.
   Do we really want our every move placed on film. Do we need high powered cameras situated in positions that in some cases the inside of buildings can be seen.
   
   Let us not give way to the paranoid
   law enforcers who will if left to their own devices throw the baby of freedom out with bathwater of over surveylance.

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