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Doktor Jons Guide to the "Use and Application of CCTV" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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- CCTV News - January 2009 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Crimes in camera. - It's been revealed that in one year, as part of Scotland Yards investigation of ninety murder cases, eighty six were significantly assisted by CCTV, and sixty five were actually solved through the use of Forensic Video Analysis. This highlights the police services intention to further develop CCTV as a specialist forensic discipline, equally as important as DNA or fingerprint analysis. - source - Telegraph.co.uk - 1st January 2009 If he'd only come clean - A hapless shoplifter has been fined £ 50 ($ 75, € 55) plus court costs, after being convicted for stealing two packets of washing tablets, in full view of the Co-op stores CCTV system. - source - The Bolton News - 5th January 2009 Within these walls - News from the US, where Miller County Sheriff Ron Stovall, has reported that most of the video security cameras installed in his local jail, have been ripped off the walls by prisoners. Claiming that failures with the way the cameras were installed in the cells some years before, has inevitably contributed to the problem, it's now expected that the cost to replace the missing units will prove to be "considerable" - source - Texarkana Gazette - 6th January 2009 Minding other peoples business - January 2009 has seen the launch of a new video surveillance industry analysis service. IP Video Market is operated by industry expert John Honovich, who provides a unique insight into the businesses currently most active in the world of CCTV and IP Video. - source - PR Web - 6th January 2009 Saddled with surveillance - Most people go to the cinema to see a good movie, but for bemused film buffs visiting Cineworld in Boldon, Sth. Tyneside, it wasn't the matinee performance that was raising smiles. An escaped horse was captured on CCTV as it wandered into the foyer, trotted around for a while, then exited the same way it came in. - source - Examiner.com - 6th January 2009 A vision from above. - Police officers in Manilla in the Philippines, will be using surveillance cameras mounted on tethered hot air balloons, to keep an aeriel watch on the vast procession, which coincides with the annual feast of the Black Nazarene. - source - GMA News.TV - 6th January 200 A g'day for the law - The Central Business District video surveillance scheme operating in Wollongong, Australia, has reportedly helped achieve 900 arrests in just two years. In the local shopping mall, impressive results are thought to result from the Special Constables having the power of arrest, making it easier and quicker to apprehend suspects, before they have a chance to escape. - source - illawarra Mercury - 19th January 2009 It takes some bottle ... - Staff at the Just Learning Nursery in Stowmarket, were less than impressed when the childrens daily milk supply failed to materialise. A quick check of their CCTV system clearly showed a thief stealing the 40 pints, before driving off in an SUV. - source - Evening Star24 - 19th January 2009 Justice in the slow lane - An innocent 21 year old man has been held in jail for almost a year on charges relating to a fatal shooting in Seattle. Delays in compiling a workable copy of a video surveillance recording, have been cited by his attorney as the main reason for his detention, after the video was eventually produced and proved conclusively he was not the killer . - source - The Seattle Times - 17th January 2009 A g'day for the law - The Central Business District video surveillance scheme operating in Wollongong, Australia, has reportedly helped achieve 900 arrests in just two years. In the local shopping mall, impressive results are thought to result from the Special Constables having the power of arrest, making it easier and quicker to apprehend suspects, before they have a chance to escape. - source - illawarra Mercury - 19th January 2009 It takes some bottle ... - Staff at the Just Learning Nursery in Stowmarket, were less than impressed when the childrens daily milk supply failed to materialise. A quick check of their CCTV system clearly showed a thief stealing the 40 pints, before driving off in an SUV. - source - Evening Star24 - 19th January 2009 A g'day for the law - The Central Business District video surveillance scheme operating in Wollongong, Australia, has reportedly helped achieve 900 arrests in just two years. In the local shopping mall, impressive results are thought to result from the Special Constables having the power of arrest, making it easier and quicker to apprehend suspects, before they have a chance to escape. - source - illawarra Mercury - 19th January 2009 It takes some bottle ... - Staff at the Just Learning Nursery in Stowmarket, were less than impressed when the childrens daily milk supply failed to materialise. A quick check of their CCTV system clearly showed a thief stealing the 40 pints, before driving off in an SUV. - source - Evening Star24 - 19th January 2009 An arresting site - Still on the subject of statistics, in the 12 years since Lincoln City Council launched their CCTV system, cameras have resulted in over 20,000 arrests being made for a wide range of offences. Through the use of 124 Town Centre cameras, 1,500 missing persons have been spotted, and various incidents have resulted in fire crews attending on 335 occassions, and ambulances for 1,728 medical emergencies. - source - This is Lincolnshire.co.uk - 20th January 2009 Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone ... - News from Washington, where State Rep. Mike Sells has introduced a bill to regulate the use of video surveillance in public schools.The legislation was tabled in the State Legislature following a previous incident, where school authorities used security cameras to take action against a teacher, accused of helping students to produce an underground newspaper. - source - msnbc - KHQ TV - 20th January 2009 Tapping in to what's in the pipeline - Growth Partnership specialists Frost and Sullivan have announced a new 'webinar' 2009 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation, concerning the North American video surveillance market, which will be held on the 3rd February 2009. - source - PR Newswire - 20th January 2009 Is this a record ...? - A long overdue upgrade to the CCTV recording systems being used in Lowestoft, Suffolk, has been put on hold "pending an organisational review". In June 2007, Waveney District Council agreed to update the 30 plus camera recording system to a full digital solution, costing an estimated £ 70,000, but some eighteen months later there is still no sign of any progress in improving a system that was first installed in 1998. - source - EDP24 - 21st January 2009 Council banks on camera enforcement - Councillors have decided that two CCTV cameras set up to monitor unauthorised punt operators, were not covert in nature. Cambridge City Council had previously installed the cameras to monitor the banks of the River Cam, but an internal report has decided that as the equipment was not hidden from view, it could not be classed as a covert surveillance operation. - source - Cambridge News Online - 21st January 2009 Camera captures clandestine killer - Police investigators in Moscw, Russia, have been hampered in their search for a gunman that murdered a prominent human rights lawyer, and a young woman journalist that tried to intervene. The shootings were clearly captured on CCTV mounted outside the office building where the pair were gunned down, but the identity of the assassin was deliberately obscured by a cap. - source - CNN.com/europe - 21st January 2009 What price protection .... - Residents have reacted angrily, after Bradford council agreed to pay for the installation of monitored CCTV cameras to protect a local councillors property, after her cars had previously been acid attacked by vandals. - source - Telegraph & Argus - 26th January 2009 Bordering on the ridiculous - State officials in Texas are less than impressed with a $2m security camera scheme, which in a six month period resulted in just three arrests. Proponents of the project designed to secure part of the Texas Mexico border, had expected over 1200 detentions. - source - Chron.com - 26th January 2009 Bog standard surveillance? - A 14 year old girl has been withdrawn from her school in Ceredigion, Wales, after her father complained about the installation of CCTV which he considered an "outrageous invasion" of privacy. The head teacher has defended the use of cameras in the toilets, which were intended to tackle the problems caused by the misuse of soap and paper towels - source - BBC News - 27th January 2009 Camera gets carried away. - A 33 year old woman has appeared in Blackpool Magistrates Court after having been caught stealing a CCTV camera worth £ 27.00, from her local diy store. Whilst defending counsel cited drugs as a significant issue, the court has bailed the accused pending the review of pre-sentence reports. . - source - Blackpool Gazette - 27th January 2009 CCTV News in the last 7 days >> | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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