The Met is required to apply to local authorities for permission to operate these gadgets. The Met say no microphone is included in the machine. The Met’s press office comments …
“Within the context of public order policing the MPS uses these cameras to provide additional CCTV coverage for public events, where there are gaps within static CCTV coverage to allow command teams running the policing of events to monitor crowd safety and dynamics”.
The camera photographed was on a lamppost in Clerkenwell Green on Mayday (1st May 2009). I noticed it photographed it, then an hour or so later I found it had been removed.
The machines are made by Norton Integrated Systems Ltd.
Link to the manufactures website:
http://www.nortonsystems.co.uk/sherpa/
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