Britain’s excessive use of CCTV cameras and the shocking waste of money.
Even before leaving England a year ago, this was a subject that made me feel uneasy, to say the least.
Anyway, a recent article in The Daily Telegraph pointed out just what a complete cock-up this ‘investment’ in cameras 
has been.
Britain has 1 per cent of the world’s population but around 20 per cent of its CCTV cameras! Scary.
And don’t even think about the implications of RFID – Radio Frequency Identification.
G’rrrr.
By Paul Handover
Learning from Dogs 
CCTVs are an extremely interesting phenomenon ….. on the fact of it, Britain is turning into a Big Brother society …. there is more and more surveillance at every level, and the plethora of CCTV posts is a case in point. Exactly WHY humble little Britain has to have far more cameras than any other country on earth is a total mystery. More than any other of the repressive dictatorships that sadly still litter the planet. More than China, a Commmunist dictatorship …… I am genuinely mystified by this … we used to be an offshoot of “the land of the free” ….. now we are increasingly the land of the observed.
Is it a reflection of the Labour government’s control freakery, aided and encouraged of course by the EU, which makes 80% of ouw laws? I cannot believe it corresponds to the average Brit’s bloody-minded sense of independence ….
However, the problem is that a plausible case CAN be made – on the face of it – for CCTV. It helps to solve crime, doesn’t it? Well, errrmmmm … No, apparently, and possibly counter-intuitively … a recent report said that only one crime in 1,000 is solved as a result of CCTV and that each crime solved effectively costs £20,000. The Labour government’s reponse to that will surely be that we haven’t got enough ……
Where CCTV WOULD in my opinion be great for EVERYONE is on VEHICLES … that way idiotic driving would be deterred and seen if it occurred …. and lives would definitely be saved. Why there are not cameras installed on every new car is a bit puzzling to me … I don’t ask that the film be monitored exernally, but one should oneself have the option to send film of idiots to the police. And in the case of an accident, film of the incident would be a Godsend in helping to attribute blame ….
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Its not the case of enough cctv to prevent crime, its the quality of the existing system we see that is the problem, we in the UK want things cheap and unfortunatly, cheap means poor quality, so when the people buying the system have a problem the system is not adequate to give clear images thus criminal activity’s go on,
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