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/
Comments
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CCTV and the Olympics
12.05.2009 12:17
In the government's CCTV strategy - it says 'The 2012 Olympics will present a significant opportunity for partner agencies to ‘join up’ their thinking in the positioning and networking of cameras across London and the UK.'
Ivan Agenda
Healh and safety concerns
12.05.2009 12:33
HSE
here's an idea
12.05.2009 14:33
not from london
What goes up... must come down.
12.05.2009 14:40
Sabotage
up north
12.05.2009 16:03
seen em in places like leeds
northen monkey
Car Tax vans with numberplate recognition?
12.05.2009 23:08
So all you car tax dodgers out there, just make sure you park close enough to obstacles or subtly cover your registration somehow. They didn't appear to be doing manual checking.
Obviously they target poorer areas more since they are more likely to not pay car tax and also because they don't have off-road garages.
Also we have a fucking spy camera, not like the one above but similar to ones you sometimes see on motorways, in a residential street, looking right into people's windows.
I can't believe how fast Big Brother is becoming a reality. If you told us 10 years ago it was going to get like this most people would have laughed in your face. Now there is a kind of numb acceptance by most people.
anon
sab cams
13.05.2009 16:22
outside my flat there are 4 cameras within 100ft of each other. The houses round the back have one camera pointing at the bag doors, one pointing at the front door and one at the end of the street watching everyone who comes in.
anti-cam
'Road' cameras
14.05.2009 07:46
Danny
re: anti-cam
15.05.2009 18:43
Strange how you never see them in posh areas, even if they do get occasional trouble.
anon