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4th Apr 2007, 8:36 AM #1
You Make Me Want To Shout
CCTV Cameras that shout at yobs are being introduced around the country....
CCTV cameras fitted with loudspeakers that bark orders at anti-social yobs and criminals are to be installed across the country.
The "talking" spy cameras are being set up in 20 areas across the country after a successful pilot scheme in Middlesbrough.
The test project saw vandals told to stop what they were doing and litterbugs ordered to take their rubbish with them or find a bin.
Council workers in a control centre monitored pictures from 12 talking cameras in the town and communicated directly with people on the street at the flick of a switch.
The scheme has been criticised by opponents as "Big Brother gone mad".
But the Home Secretary has insisted it was proven to work and the communities sharing nearly 500,000 in grants to adapt cameras would feel the benefits.
"The new funding for Talking CCTV is aimed at the small minority who think it is acceptable to litter our streets, vandalise our communities and damage our properties," John Reid said.
"We all pay council tax so in the end we all pay when our communities are disrespected - both in our pockets as well as in our daily lives."
Competitions are being held at schools in many of the areas for children to become the "voice" of CCTV cameras, he added.
"By funding and supporting these local schemes, the Government is encouraging children to send this clear message to grown ups: act anti-socially and you will face the shame of being publicly embarrassed."
:: The 21 areas which have received grants for Talking CCTV proposals are: Southwark; Barking and Dagenham; Reading; Thanet; Harlow; Norwich; Ipswich; Plymouth; Gloucester; Derby; Northampton; Mansfield; Nottingham; Coventry; Sandwell; Wirral; Blackpool; Salford; Middlesbrough; South Tyneside; and Darlington.
Si xx
I've just got my handcuffs and my truncheon and that's enough.
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