It helps if you don't have a flare for it - Residents and traders in a small seaside town, have voiced their concerns over street surveillance cameras that have proven worthless. Vandals have apparently damaged shops and threatened traders in Newhaven, East Sussex, UK, for around six years, safe in the knowledge that the towns CCTV cameras are blinded at night by inappropriately installed street lighting. Sussex Police and the local town council are apparently in discussions as to how theproblems can be overcome. - Source - Express.co.uk 28th February 2010

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Beefing up animal welfare - In the U.K., the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), have called for the mandatory use of CCTV in abattoirs across the country. Citing animal welfare concerns, the society have sought to engage with the industry, to ensure that the remaining 50% of slaughterhouses currently participating in the 'Freedom Food' labelling scheme that do not have internal video monitoring systems in place, move to install the technology as soon as possible. The animal welfare group 'Compassion in World Farming' welcomed the initiative, and indicated that they would like to see systems employed in all abattoirs across the EU. - Source - Reuters 25th February 2010

It's good to share - Port of Los Angeles Police are about to go higher tech., following an agreement to supply them with the latest mobile phone software. As part of a $ 4.2 million initiative to help secure one of america's busiest ports, police will in future be able to use their mobile phone's (cellphones) to capture video of incidents in progress, and stream the images live directly to other officers responding to the event. - Source - Mercury News.com 25 th February 2010

Better late than never ...? - It's been announced that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has begun work to fit video loss alarms to key security cameras operating in their three international airports. This follows the recent incident, where a student who wanted to see his girlfriend off on a flight, managed to sneak through security at Newark airport to end up 'air side'. The Transportation Security Administrations subsequent investigation of this major security breach, found that vital CCTV evidence was missing, due to equipment failures that had not been spotted by staff. - Source - NJ.com 25th February 2010

The clocks ticking .... - Traders in Devizes, Wiltshire, UK have been warned that unless funding can be found to support the towns CCTV camera scheme, the plug would have to be pulled. The Devizes Development Partnership currently spend £ 23,000 ( $ 35k, €25k ) a year to operate the eight cameras, but with the present funding agreement coming to an end, it leaves the schemes future somewhat uncertain. - Source - Gazette & Herald 25 th February 2010

We mustn't look at what they saw - A TV News Channel in India has been blocked from broadcasting recordings taken from security cameras that captured the moments surrounding the recent 'German Bakery' blast. The Commissioner of Police announced that the Anti Terrorism Court of Pune had issued an order, preventing the broadcast of all CCTV material which may identify any witnesses to the terrorist attack in which a number of civilians were killed. - Source - India Server 25th February 2010

Not quite such diamond geezers - What looked like a straightforward jewellery heist in New Yorks Diamond District, proved to be anything but after Midtown detectives managed to unravel a bizarre plot. The two owners of the diamond wholesale business have now been charged with grand larceny, insurance fraud, and falsifying business records, when they removed the gems themselves, prior to reporting them as stolen. The supposed 'robbery' was actually set up with hired accomplices being made to dress up as hasidic jews, who then held up the store at gunpoint. The plan unravelled when the store's video footage was enhanced, to clearly show the business owners taking the stock themselves. - Source - CBS News 24th February 2010

Just the ticket - Leeds City Council is the latest UK Local Authority to issue it's Parking Enforcement Officers with Body Worn Video systems. It's been revealed that last year, there were 172 incidents of violence against the wardens, ranging from spitting and assault up to attempting to run them over. Whilst the systems are apparently only switched on if an officer feels threatened, unnecessary recordings are deleted at the end of a shift, although so far material has been handed over to the police on two seperate occasions. Since the scheme started, incidents have reportedly dropped by 48% - Source - Yorkshire Evening Post 24th February 2010

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