Up to 80% of CCTV footage seized by police is of such poor quality that it is almost worthless for the detection of crimes. Scotland Yard's CCTV expert said yesterday that the use of cameras to create a surveillance society was an "utter fiasco"
Det Chief Insp Mike Neville observed that only 3% of of London's street robberies had been solved by use of CCTV images. Billions of pounds has been spent on kit, but no thought has gone into how the police are going to use the images, the way the will be used in court, he told a Security World Conference in London [How impressed they must have been with British efficiency]
According to a Home Office report on CCTV, published recently, up to 80% of the footage gathered across Britain "is far from ideal" in it's use to police.
Mr Neville went on to say that the presence of cameras at the scene does not act as a deterrent because criminal assume it is not working. When footage is recorded, officers do not want to sit and look through the images because it is "hard work" he added [surprise surprise]
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