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May 18, 2008

CCTV Failed to Slash Crime

[From CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police | UK news | The Guardian], See also, this story from the Independent and comments on Schneier's blog.

The article discusses a why the cameras haven't worked to reduce crime and what the UK is doing to fix the problem. Here are some snippets:

Only 3% of street robberies in London were solved using CCTV images, despite the fact that Britain has more security cameras than any other country in Europe. The warning comes from the head of the Visual Images, Identifications and Detections Office (Viido) at New Scotland Yard as the force launches a series of initiatives to try to boost conviction rates using CCTV evidence. They include:

· A new database of images which is expected to use technology developed by the sports advertising industry to track and identify offenders.

· Putting images of suspects in muggings, rape and robbery cases out on the internet from next month.

· Building a national CCTV database, incorporating pictures of convicted offenders as well as unidentified suspects. The plans for this have been drawn up, but are on hold while the technology required to carry out automated searches is refined.

Posted by rshah at May 18, 2008 05:11 PM

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