An example of the power of CCTV is that it provided evidence that led to a man being found guilty of assaulting a drunken off-duty soldier. Members of the jury at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court saw CCTV footage of Peter Lightfoot pushing Lance Corporal Mark Aspinall's head to the ground and hitting him with a police helmet.
Coppers are chasing copper thieves who steal cables in the face of a big increase in the crime fuelled by surging scrap copper prices. Thieves are targeting the copper contained in the local telecoms network, leaving affected areas cut off and costing British Telecom millions of pounds every year. There was a 9% increase in incidents last year.
Criminal activity on public transport has reached the billion pounds a year mark, according to the latest government figures. Regarding public transport in England in 2006/07, the statistics showed that the total cost to society of crime on rail, light rail and London Underground reached £926.9 million, with bus and tram crime costing £574 million. There were more than 77,000 reported and recorded incidents of crime on rail, light rail and London Underground in that year.
High density urban areas and cities have been revealed as dominating the 10 biggest hot spots in the country for burglaries occurring per 1000 people. As well as the nation’s capital, Nottingham, Bristol, Reading and Leeds figure in the list. Nevertheless if you live in Hartlepool, Durham, there is good news because this is the area that has seen the biggest reduction in burglaries since 2002.
Britain's most senior anti-terror officer John Yates has warned spending cuts would increase the risk of attack. The Times newspaper said Mr Yates described the cuts as "eye-watering". He claimed cutting 25% from the police budget (the planned amount of across-the-board cuts announced in last month's Budget) risked weakening the nation's defences against al-Qaeda, the newspaper reports.
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