CCTV CAMERAS

CCTV Cameras



TABLE OF STATUTES

Regulation of CCTV10

[Data Protection Act Section 1(1)]11

[Protection of Freedoms Bill Section 29(3)]13

TABLE OF CASES

Appendix15

City Outskirts - comparison of crime trends in the target, buffer and division15

Objectives15

Has it worked?15

Factors helping performance15

Hawkeye - changes in crime levels against number of car parks with CCTV16

Objectives17

Has it worked?17

Factors helping or hindering performance18

Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) is a video surveillance expertise which is utilised to supervise a kind of environments and activities. (Dodd 2003, 78-80)

Does CCTV avert and notice crime?

CCTV pictures can be a precious device in misdeed detection and they have been utilised competently in a number of high profile situations over the past couple of decades. CCTV is although not a shiny bullet. (Gill 2005, 11-15)

Similarly, its effectiveness as a misdeed deterrent is far from proven. Our misdeed rates are comparable with nations with very couple of cameras and Home Office financed study has resolved that the influence of CCTV on misdeed avoidance is not significant. (Argomaniz 2005, 21-23)

What is the problem?

Our major anxiety is that CCTV is unsafely unregulated. There is no binding legislation ruling where CCTV cameras can be put or who can operate them. And facts and numbers defence legislation ruling how long the pictures can be kept and accessed, has failed to hold up with technological changes. Without comprehensive legislative guideline there is even larger promise for CCTV to be abused and misused and promise for unjustified intrusions into our privacy. (Waples 2005, 67-70)

Misuse and misuse of CCTV pictures can currently occur. This was the case when two Merseyside assembly employees were apprehended spying on a woman in her bathing room even though the camera was not intended to movie interior her home.

The large-scale expansion of CCTV in latest years furthermore impersonates a risk to our way of life. We are although improbable to awaken up one forenoon with the feeling that we are abruptly under much more surveillance than the day before. This is because surveillance apparatus is gathered in a piecemeal way and often under the radar. (Jessiman 2005, 15-20)

ANPR, which has amplified tremendously without any genuine public argument or information, raises gigantic privacy concerns. This expertise, initially utilised to supervise unregistered vehicles, is now regularly being utilised by the policeman to find vehicles (and their owners) that might emerge on other - and often dubious - policeman databases. (Spriggs 2005, 54-56)

Perhaps we should look at the Bill itself to get a real sense of the great protection to our freedoms this piece of legislation represents in relation to the use of overt camera surveillance.

Indeed, in recent years, the use of video surveillance appears to be perceived by some as a panacea for many societal problems recurring, including the fight against a growing sense of insecurity in public spaces. As rightly pointed to the explanatory report, the situation today regarding the video surveillance in the canton is particularly difficult to read.

Article 2: Insofar as the Canton of Fribourg intends to legislate on video by a specific law and not by adding ...