Are CCTV cameras a waste of money?

Are CCTV cameras a waste of money?

CCTV cameras are failing to have an effect on crime, despite the huge amount that the UK has invested in them, a Met chief has claimed. Det Ch Insp Neville claims that criminals aren't afraid of the cameras. We have the most CCTV cameras in the world but is the cost of becoming a surveillance society worth it?

 

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  1.  
    robert w matthews from Walsall says:
    May 9, 17:20

    The only way cctv can be a faliure is if professionals like the police do not do their job and use the footage to catch/identify criminals, not forgetting that cctv is not just a deterrant, but useful in terms of evidence, home/diy cctv systems, I can say from personal experience can be a deterrant and images from them used in court.

  2.  
    hat from s says:
    May 9, 14:33

    pity the money spent on them could have been spent on investing in education and jobs for real people who are ultimately more reliable witnesses than a camera.

    They say a camera doesn't like but there is still a pair of eyes behind it to identify suspects.

    This lot just think it's cheaper to get a machine to do a man's work rather than win the loyalty of the people they are monitering.

    Honor amongst theives huh?

  3.  
    Driver from R-C-T says:
    May 9, 14:02

    Isn't it a shame that they are not as efficient as speed cameras, Those photos have top studied as well.

  4.  
    Richard from East Midlands says:
    May 9, 12:51

    cctv acts as a visible threat among every other visible threat that this society now has. It is just another way of not having the police plodding the streets. What a horrible society we now have to endure

  5.  
    Jock Scott from Scotland says:
    May 9, 12:13

    CCTV

    is a deterent.

    and has solved crimes, otherwise
    would be unsolved.

    BUT
    operation LEOPARD
    is what Scotlands Citys NEED.
    Take Life back!

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