Senior officer says CCTV use "a fiasco"
Billions of pounds spent by Britain on security cameras has failed to cut crime and has been “an utter fiasco”, a senior detective was quoted as saying on Tuesday. Britain has the most surveillance in the world, according to civil liberty groups and security experts, with an estimated 4.2 million closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras in place on buildings, shops, roads and train stations. Full Story