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Monday, October 27, 2003
”Cameras just part of bigger picture: As a mobile CCTV unit hits the road, Lothian and Borders Chief Constable Paddy Tomkins ponders its place in fighting crime. [. . .]Many analysts suggest that CCTV has the effect of displacing, rather than reducing crime, and is dangerous if regarded as a panacea rather than as one element of a wider strategy incorporating land use, housing, transport policies and measures which encourage natural - people looking out for each other - rather than simply mechanised surveillance.
CCTV thus needs to be part of a much more sophisticated and complex answer to the problem of crime . . .” Edinburgh Evening News
Posted by MM
on Mon 27th Oct 2003
at 9:09 pm
Crime Prevention CCTV
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