Stop Cowley Road CCTV!
Winston Smith | 18.07.2007 09:46 | Repression | Oxford
Jim Trotman, Police Area Commander for Oxford, is going to be at the East Area Parliament meeting TONIGHT to beg for CCTV along the Cowley Road.
Come along at 6.30pm - St Clement's Family Centre, Cross Street (off Princes St).
Local Councillors have spent years resisting CCTV - come along tonight to support them and let the Police know you don't want residents to be watched 24 hours a day just because a few people can't control their alcohol intake at 11pm!
It's not just about civil liberties - all it will do is push any problems down side streets! There is no evidence that CCTV prevents crimes, it just makes arrests a bit easier! AND then there's the mammoth cost of keeping CCTV running (tens of thousands of £'s) AND the fact that when the local Police are hit with more massive (Government inforced) cuts next year they could argue that communty beat Police can go because the CCTV can do the community policing instead!
Stop this Orwellian rot before it's too late.....
Come along at 6.30pm - St Clement's Family Centre, Cross Street (off Princes St).
Local Councillors have spent years resisting CCTV - come along tonight to support them and let the Police know you don't want residents to be watched 24 hours a day just because a few people can't control their alcohol intake at 11pm!
It's not just about civil liberties - all it will do is push any problems down side streets! There is no evidence that CCTV prevents crimes, it just makes arrests a bit easier! AND then there's the mammoth cost of keeping CCTV running (tens of thousands of £'s) AND the fact that when the local Police are hit with more massive (Government inforced) cuts next year they could argue that communty beat Police can go because the CCTV can do the community policing instead!
Stop this Orwellian rot before it's too late.....
Winston Smith
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Is their proposed CCTV Legal?
19.07.2007 16:47
Because if the system does not comply with the legal requirements of the Act, then the operators and data controllers will be breaking the law.
you can down load a copy of the Data Protection Act, CCTV code of practice by going to the governmet web site. www.ico.gov.uk
I have yet to see a town centre system that fully complies with the Act.
So what is the point in spending all the tax payers money on a system whose data can be possibly discredited.
Enjoy the meeting and let me know the outcome.
bentleyboy
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