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Article: Tens of thousands of CCTV cameras on our streets, yet up to 80% of crime remains unsolved
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 19, 2007
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LONDON has 10,000 crime-fighting CCTV cameras which cost 200
million, figures show today.
But an analysis of the publicly funded spy network, which is
owned and controlled by local authorities and Transport for London,
has cast doubt on its ability to help solve crime.
A comparison of the number of cameras in each London borough with
the proportion of crimes solved there found that police are no more
likely to catch offenders in areas with hundreds of cameras than in
those with hardly any.
In fact, four out of five of the boroughs with the most cameras
have a record of solving crime that is below average.
The figures were obtained by the Liberal Democrats on the London
Assembly using the ...