Thanks CCTV

1 Jul 2008

Last week my cousin pulled up behind a car at traffic light. What happened next is debatable, but the drive in front made a claim for neck injure.
It was only the fact that there was CCTV on the junction that proved the car in front reversed. So my cousin still has a clean licence.
So CCTV saved the day.

1 Jul 2008

OH, the question, 'Apart from the odd TV prog, what good has come from CCTV?'

1 Jul 2008

CCTV has helped to catch and convict a lot of criminals in the past... I think its a good thing!

1 Jul 2008

I'm sure it is.
Strange that my local s/mart decided to remove the video cameras from the roof of the store, the ones over the changing rooms, when I gave them a dvd with a few pictures of women changing.....must still be loads floating about the net on various peepers sites....mind you, when they pay "security guards" peanuts, they're bound to act like monkeys.
CCTV has certainly quietened-down quite a few carparks, I quite a few that are dead at night now, where there used to be endless fun to be found.
CCTV used as anpr is going to change things as well, they can read your 'plates and signal "no tax/insurance/mot" to the local mob...who will then wait up the road. Even if you do have them, you will still be stopped. Note that the police do not accept a certificate of insurance as proof. They tend to impound vehicles now if the mid shows no trace. Then there's the thorny question of what happens to the info that is recorded.....

1 Jul 2008

Yes, all for it...a couple of really nasty "no respect" yobos recently convicted of assault in my town as a reault of CCTV. Lock the silly irrsponsible ba****rds up I say!

1 Jul 2008

Quote by JTS
CCTV used as anpr is going to change things as well, they can read your 'plates and signal "no tax/insurance/mot" to the local mob...who will then wait up the road. Even if you do have them, you will still be stopped. Note that the police do not accept a certificate of insurance as proof. They tend to impound vehicles now if the mid shows no trace. Then there's the thorny question of what happens to the info that is recorded.....

if an uninsured driver hits you then your fecked to claim, so these anpr cameras are good,it gets the folk off the road who dont pay there way like 99.9% of us do.
if you can prove you have insureance then they wont impound your car as not every insureance company has signed up to the database.

2 Jul 2008

Not particularly edifying viewing but it did at least make sure the horrible bastard went down:

(I'm a Newcastle fan and this makes me ashamed).
On the other hand, I personally have been mugged right under a CCTV camera, and assaulted under another, and had my bike nicked from directly under another, and the police have been unable to find any evidence. (The first two of those as a teenager in Newcastle, the third in my new home city, Liverpool... no surprises there :-))

2 Jul 2008

Quote by sexyboy19760

CCTV used as anpr is going to change things as well, they can read your 'plates and signal "no tax/insurance/mot" to the local mob...who will then wait up the road. Even if you do have them, you will still be stopped. Note that the police do not accept a certificate of insurance as proof. They tend to impound vehicles now if the mid shows no trace. Then there's the thorny question of what happens to the info that is recorded.....

if an uninsured driver hits you then your fecked to claim, so these anpr cameras are good,it gets the folk off the road who dont pay there way like 99.9% of us do.
if you can prove you have insureance then they wont impound your car as not every insureance company has signed up to the database.

The Motor Insurers Bureau was established in 1946 as a private company limited by guarantee for the purpose of entering into Agreements with the Government to compensate the victims of negligent uninsured and untraced motorists. Every insurer underwriting compulsory motor insurance is obliged, by virtue of the Road Traffic Act 1988, to be a member of MIB and to contribute to its funding

The UK has one of the worst records in Western Europe for uninsured driving with an estimated one in every twenty cars (5%) on the road being driven without insurance. This results in every honest motorist in the UK paying up to £30 of their insurance premium to compensate the innocent victims of these cheats, and the problem is growing at a dramatic rate.
The Motor Insurance Database (MID) was set up by the insurance industry to help combat this crime, and the police are now the MID's biggest customer, making over 3.8 million enquiries per month. The DVLA, with over 1 million enquiry transactions a month in support of their Electronic Vehicle Licensing operation, is the second largest user of the MID. The MID also helps the UK comply with the 4th EU Motor Insurance Directive, which requires that insurance details of all vehicles in member states can be easily accessed by a national information centre. In the UK, this role is carried out by the MIB via the UK Information Centre.
If your vehicle is privately insured it will have already been entered onto the MID by your insurer.

If I hadn't had my licence with me, and my insurance certificate, my vehicle WOULD have been impounded.

2 Jul 2008

Even today, when the government is stripping Police Officers of their discretion it is unlikely that cars are crush/ seized where an admin error has occurred.
In such cases the officer will normally act in the best intrest of the public.
On the other hand since PC are now judge by reaching targets, ie how many tickets/forms they issue, how many breath test they take; some will take action that years ago would have resulted in a verbal warnning and no further action. Government targets, the best way to stop someone doing their job!