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Wednesday 11 February 2009

CCTV

I was just idly browsing, when I stumbled upon this on the Liberty website.

In the past decade the Home Office has spent 78% of its crime prevention budget on CCTV, before assessing its effectiveness in deterring or detecting crime.


78% of their crime prevention budget! No wonder you never see a Police Officer on the street. A quick look at the home office website to find that the cost for all those cameras came to a figure of £170,000,000.

If you look at the average Plods pay, that equates to over 5600 extra police we could have patrolling our streets.

Or , hell, 8500 PCSOs

2 comments:

  1. "A spokesman for the Met Office said this year has been nothing as bad as the big freeze of 1962/63, when it snowed from Christmas until March and was the coldest winter on record since 1740."
    Detective Superintendent Charles Moffat added: “Temperatures are predicted to remain low throughout the day and drivers need to
    remember that the going is extremely slippery.”
    And we pay the police to tell us this?

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  2. They should stick to what they're not good at.

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