CCTV boom 'failing to cut crime'

[Taf]

Huge investment in closed-circuit TV technology has failed to cut UK crime, a senior police officer has warned.

Det Ch Insp Mike Neville said the system was an "utter fiasco" - with only 3% of London's street robberies being solved using security cameras.

Although Britain had more cameras than any other European country, he said "no thought" had gone into how to use them.

There are more than 4.2 million cameras in the UK...................

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7384843.stm

Big Brother is getting sick of watchingbthe screens 24/7

[Lisa]

a lot of cctv has awful picture quality

[Taf]

The cameras are good, it's reusing the same tapes 400000000 times that screws the image...

[Mike]

Any body surprised