Billions Spent on Britain’s Cameras Haven’t Cut Crime

Posted by Karim Baz

May 6, 2008

Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not had a significant impact on crime, according to the senior police officer piloting a new database. Detective Chief Inspector Mick Neville said it was a “fiasco” that only 3 per cent of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV.

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