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London Police Seek To Install CCTV In Pubs

Posted by timothy on from the well-they-do-call-it-a-public-house dept.

JCWDenton writes "The Met Police got a short sharp rap over the knuckles yesterday, as the Office of the Information Commissioner questioned what looks very much like a blanket policy to force CCTV onto public houses in certain parts of London. The story begins with a letter to the Guardian last week, from Nick Gibson. He is currently renovating Islington pub The Drapers Arms, after its previous owners allowed it to go insolvent and then disappeared. In his letter, he argues that if he had merely taken over an existing licence, the police could not have imposed any additional conditions. However, because this was now a new licence, the police were able to make specific requests, including one particular request in respect of installing CCTV."

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  1. Can we have a bit less old news? by ChowRiit · · Score: -1, Troll

    I read this when it went up on The Register, 5 days ago. Can people please check the timestamp before submitting/approving stories? The normal 2 or 3 days old news is just about passable, but 5 days is getting silly.

    1. Re:Can we have a bit less old news? by Morlark · · Score: 1, Troll

      Not to mention the fact that The Register has really gone downhill over the years, to the point where pretty much every article they publish now is either absurd sensationalist nonsense, or else pandering to the whims of their readership. It really is just unreadable tripe.

      The turning point for me was several years ago, when they published an "article" that was literally just an incoherent, ranting, non-journalistic diatribe accusing someone's blog post of not being journalism. I mean, besides the obvious "no shit, sherlock" factor, and the fact that the blog in question never even claimed to be journalism... I was literally boggling at how not only had someone actually bothered to write such an unreadable rant, but his buddies had actually let him publish it on what they like to call a news website. I mean, they even disabled comments on that story, so they obviously knew it was unpublishable crap.

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  2. ta3o by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    least of whiCh is Another cunting peop7e playing can

  3. Re:1984 by cyber-vandal · · Score: -1, Troll

    Except that we have really strong cannabis here. Someone high on that can be very dangerous. I tell you what, you come over here and ask the gang of youths at the back of the bus to turn their mobile phone MP3 players off and stop stinking up the bus with their joints and see how quickly the situation turns ugly.

  4. Re:1984 by cyber-vandal · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't just blame cannabis - I'd just like to travel on the bus without the stink of cigarettes and weed and the tinny noise of crappy music bugging me. Not exactly a huge ask is it? But the chip on your shoulder about cannabis must give you real back problems.

    P.S. Don't even think about comparing me to Daily Mail readers unless you want to say it to my face and get a smack. Hating selfish wankers is not an exclusive perogative of those arseholes ta very much.

  5. Re:Furthermore... by What+is+WOW · · Score: 0, Troll

    Making a pro-American astute observation = flamebait

  6. Re:1984 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't just blame cannabis - I'd just like to travel on the bus without the stink of cigarettes and weed and the tinny noise of crappy music bugging me. Not exactly a huge ask is it? But the chip on your shoulder about cannabis must give you real back problems.

    P.S. Don't even think about comparing me to Daily Mail readers unless you want to say it to my face and get a smack. Hating selfish wankers is not an exclusive perogative of those arseholes ta very much.

    If you don't like the sounds of head phones, then buy some ear plugs you limey bastard.