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City of London street surveillance CCTV camera, equipped with PA speakers to allow City of London Police, to make verbal announcements in the event of an incident.City of London street surveillance CCTV camera, equipped with PA speakers to allow City of London Police, to make verbal announcements in the event of an incident.
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Don't look now but .... - Police and local council officers have been taking a novel approach to tackling crime in the Wychavon District area of South Worcestershire, U.K. In a week of targeted activities, termed Operation Protect, amongst a range of initiatives aimed at reducing the incidents of distration burglaries and bogus callers, officers have been free issuing 'state of the art' CCTV cameras, to vulnerable members of the community.- source - Evesham Journal - 1st May 2009

Having a senior moment - Following a series of incidents where criminal damage was caused to his property, a homeowner in Byfleet Surrey, decided to install CCTV cameras to monitor the area around his home. When his partners car was attacked last October, the CCTV footage revealed his 82 year old neighbour throwing a corrosive liquid over the vehicle. Following a conviction at Woking Magistrates Court, the pensioner was given a three year conditional discharge, and ordered to pay £ 3,000 in compensation.- source - Get Surrey - 1st May 2009

What price freedom ...? - Newly released CCTV recordings showing some of the suicide bombers responsible for the July 7th 2005 attacks on London, have been provided by the Metropolitan Police Service, following a request under the Freedom of Information Act. Scotland Yard had earlier objected to the material being made public, on the basis that it could compromise it's investigations, but this was overruled by the Information Commissioner, who was acting on a formal complaint from The Press Association - source - BigPond News - 2nd May 2009


Seduced by surveillance - Computer security expert Phil Zimmerman has been commenting on the UK's gradual slide towards a surveillance state. Citing the "seductiveness" of technology as a driving force for the widescale deployment of video surveillance, he warns that taken togethor, current and emerging surveillance technologies have the potential "... to undermine democratic institutions". - source - iPM programme - BBC Radio 4 - 4th May 2009

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