Historical surveillance footage can be viewed remotely through CCTV software
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Doing the rounds on well-known news clip websites is a short piece of footage which is currently amusing internet users: a scrap dealing company is captured on its own CCTV crushing a band’s brass. The dealer – who paid just £61 for stolen brass band musical instruments – captured himself crushing them on CCTV. The footage shows a gang of at least four men unloading the gear out of a packed hatchback car.
Using sophisticated trafficking operations to ship it worldwide, thieves are making a lucrative trade out of stolen metal. Scrap dealers claim criminals are transporting much of the metal straight from points such as Scotland to countries like China, where there is huge demand for affordable building materials. The black market in this scrap has grown as the credit crunch has driven up the price of commodities.
CCTV cameras are proving to have been a benefit for the Metropolitan Police Service in 2010 as they helped the force to identify more than 2,500 wanted people. This is an increase of a quarter on the statistics for 2009. The “Met’s” Caught on Camera pages contain images of suspects wanted for various offences throughout London.
“The scheme represented the worst aspect of Government. It was intrusive, bullying, ineffective and expensive,” was the verdict of Home Office minister Damian Green on the recent axing of a national identity card programme via a parliamentary bill.
Hayley Parsons of Rogerstone, Gocompare.com’s chief executive, said about a new campaign using their popular character: "Children love the character and like to sing-along to the ‘Go Compare’ song. If they now sing the ‘Be Aware’ tune to their parents, that will really help get the ‘Beat the Burglar’ message home." She was referring to an advertisement in which Gocompare.com teamed up with Gwent Police helping them fight crime.
A village petrol station had to be closed the morning after a robbery. Police officers and crime scene investigators were called out to the garage, owned by petroleum giants BP, on the A36 Salisbury Road in Hampshire and the area was sectioned off for examination. It is understood no-one was hurt in the raid, and no weapons were thought to be used.
North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) has stepped up security practices by introducing CCTV in its vehicles to record any attacks on members of staff. The new measure is designed to provide proof of any attack that may be needed in any subsequent court cases. A spokeswoman for NEAS said: “The aim of the cameras is to observe attacks on paramedics.
A study by Dr Emmeline Taylor on the use of CCTV in schools in England and Wales found many schools were failing under the Data Protection Act (DPA) to inform pupils and visitors that they were being monitored. Dr Taylor, as part of her PHD, surveyed 24 secondary schools, of which 23 had CCTV in operation.
CCTV cameras could have to be installed in all new taxis licensed in Brighton and Hove to stop drivers snubbing the disabled. At present the arrangement is optional, but the compulsory move has not been backed by taxi drivers even though a multi-organisation report suggested CCTV would give drivers greater protection and more evidence when they are involved in incidents.