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Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes

Posted by samzenpus on from the all-the-better-to-see-you-with dept.

schwit1 writes Homeowners should consider fitting CCTV to trap burglars, the country's most senior police officer declared yesterday. Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe said police forces needed more crime scene footage to match against their 12 million images of suspects and offenders. And he called on families and businesses to install cameras at eye level – to exploit advances in facial recognition technology.

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  1. Re:RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hook. Line. Sinker.

  2. Re:RTFA by jez9999 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe the good Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe should be "encouraged" to volunteer his home as the test bed. And use lots of cameras - those Brits just love their security cameras, you know.

    I'm British. I swear to god we're not all like this. Some of us absolutely do not want to live in a surveillence state and assholes like ACPO and "the head of Scotland Yard" are terribly unrepresentative of public opinion, in general. There are, however, a core of authoritarians who see no problem with removal of privacy. Just not most of us.

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  3. Re:RTFA by Obfuscant · · Score: 5, Informative

    The "CC" in CCTV originally stood for "Charge Coupled", as in "Charge Coupled Device" - the sensor in the camera.

    CCTV existed when the "sensor" was an orthicon, so no, "CCTV" does NOT stand for "charge coupled TV". The CC stands for "closed circuit", and always has.