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Closed-circuit television (CCTV) is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors.

It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point to point wireless links. CCTV is often used for surveillance in areas that may need monitoring such as banks, casinos, airports, military installations, and convenience stores. It is also an important tool of distance education.

In industrial plants, CCTV equipment may be used to observe parts of a process from a central control room; when, for example, the environment is not suitable for humans. CCTV systems may operate continuously or only as required to monitor a particular event. A more advanced form of CCTV, utilizing Digital Video Recorders (DVRs), provides recording for possibly many years, with a variety of quality and performance options and extra features (such as motion-detection and email alerts).

Surveillance of the public using CCTV is particularly common in the UK, where there are reportedly more cameras per person than in any other country in the world. There and elsewhere, its increasing use has triggered a debate about security versus privacy.

he first CCTV system was installed by Siemens AG at Test Stand VII in Peenemünde, Germany in 1942, for observing the launch of V-2rockets. The noted German engineer Walter Bruch was responsible for the design and installation of the system.

CCTV recording systems are still often used at modern launch sites to record the flight of the rockets, in order to find the possible causes of malfunctions, while larger rockets are often fitted with CCTV allowing pictures of stage separation to be transmitted back to earth by radio link.

In September 1968, Olean, New York was the first city in the United States to install video cameras along its main business street in an effort to fight crime. The use of closed-circuit TV cameras piping images into the Olean Police Department propelled Olean to the forefront of crime-fighting technology.

The use of CCTV later on became very common in banks and stores to discourage theft, by recording evidence of criminal activity. Their use further popularised the concept. The first place to use CCTV in the United Kingdom was King's Lynn, Norfolk.

In recent decades, especially with general crime fears growing in the 1990s and 2000s, public space use of surveillance cameras has taken off, especially in some countries such as the United Kingdom.

CCTV only effective at cutting car crime

CCTV is only effective in cutting vehicle crime and has little effect in reducing other offences, research for the Home Office has found.

The review of a series of CCTV studies revealed cameras that flood town centres and housing estates do not have a significant impact on crime.

In one city, it only led to increased reporting of offences to the police.

It will renew fears over the role of the CCTV network in the UK, which is already the largest in the world with the equivalent of one camera for every 12 people.

An analysis of 44 research studies was carried out by the Campbell Collaboration, a review body, which found that while cameras have a modest impact on crime levels, they are at their most effective in reducing car crime in car parks, especially when used alongside improved lighting and the introduction of security guards.

The authors, who include Cambridge University criminologist David Farrington, said CCTV should continue to be used but have a much narrower focus, such as reducing vehicle crime.

Results from a 2007 study in Cambridge which examined 30 cameras in the city centre found they had no effect on crime but did lead to a rise in the reporting of assault, robbery and other violent crimes to the police.

However, the Campbell Collaboration stressed that CCTV is more effective in reducing crime in Britain than in other countries.

It said CCTV is now the single most heavily-funded crime prevention measure operating outside the criminal justice system adding: "Over the last decade, CCTV accounted for more than three quarters of total spending on crime prevention by the British Home Office."

Chris Grayling, the shadow home secretary, said: "CCTV has definitely got a role to play in combating crime but its use should be decided by local communities."

Seven of ten murders solved by CCTV

Almost seven out of ten murders are solved using footage captured by CCTV cameras, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

By Richard Edwards, Crime Correspondent
Published: 4:34PM GMT 01 Jan 2009

The first study of its kind into the effectiveness of surveillance cameras revealed that almost every Scotland Yard murder inquiry uses their footage as evidence.

In 90 murder cases over a one year period, CCTV was used in 86 investigations, and senior officers said it helped to solve 65 cases by capturing the murder itself on film, or tracking the movements of the suspects before or after an attack.

In a third of the cases a good quality still image was taken from the footage from which witnesses identified the killer.

Britain has more cameras in public spaces than any other country in the world – an estimated 4.2 million – and a person can be captured up to 300 times a day by CCTV in London. However the proliferation of the spy systems has caused controversy, with civil rights campaigners criticising the creeping growth of a "surveillance society" that is invading the privacy of law-abiding citizens.

A report by the Surveillance Studies Network said that £500 million of public money had been invested in CCTV over the last decade and that during the 1990s the Home Office spent 78 per cent of its crime prevention budget on installing cameras.

However no study had ever been conducted to determine their effectiveness and some anecdotal evidence had previously suggested that they were of little investigative value.

Commander Simon Foy, Scotland Yard's head of homicide, told the Daily Telegraph that the results of his study proved that CCTV cameras are as vital to detectives as forensic evidence such as DNA samples or fingerprints.

Mr Foy said: "CCTV plays a huge role in helping us investigate serious crime. I hope people can understand how important it is to our success in catching people who commit murder."

One of the most infamous cases is that of Richard Whelan, who was stabbed to death on a bus in 2005 as he attempted to defend his girlfriend. The horrific 33-second attack was all caught on camera. Anthony Joseph, a paranoid schizophrenic, baited the victim by throwing chips at his girlfriend and the killer grinned at a CCTV camera as he left the bus.

Uk has more cctv than anywhere else

Britain has become a bureaucratic and authoritarian state watched over by a quarter of the world's CCTV cameras, a study of Labour's decade in power claims.

National debt is running at £175,000 per household, five times more than thought, while each year the Government has passed 3,500 regulations, along with 100,000 pages of rules and explanation.

'The Rotten State of Britain' claims to be the first "deeply researched factual account" of Tony Blair's and Gordon Brown's time in office.

The author Eammon Butler, a director of the leading think tank the Adam Smith Institute, claimed that his book had been turned down by two publishers because of the "unconventional" nature of the content.

He said: "A new form of centralised government and authoritarian government has been created that is worse than ever in Britain's recent history."

Among the claims in the book are that Britain has a quarter of the world's CCTV cameras, the largest of any country and that taxes have risen by 51 per cent since 1997.

Mr Butler also claims national debt is running at £4.6 billion, or £175,000 per household, not £729 billion (£29,000 per household) as the Government claims.

In the audit of 10 years of the Labour Government, Dr Butler says that there are now 1,406 litter wardens and dog catchers who have been given powers to levy on the spot fines.

Dr Butler said he wrote the book because he got "so angry about the way that they have no concept of the rule of law".

Dr Butler found that in just one year – 2006/7 – half of the 722,464 DNA samples collected by the police came from children, including a seven-month year old girl.

One in nine hospital patients picks up an infection during their stay on a ward, while the total cost of outstanding claims against the NHS is £9.2 billion, Dr Butler claimed.

He said that 30,000 of the 200,000 people who die of cancer and strokes each year would survive "if they lived anywhere else in northern Europe".

Dr Butler also claimed in the book that the number of people receiving state benefits has risen from 17 million people in 1997 to 21 million people by 2007.

He found that nearly six million families receive £16 billion-worth of child credit. Dr Butler said: "It's ridiculously high number of beneficiaries for something aimed to help the poorest."

The result is that some families would be better off if the parents did not live together.

He said: "Three-quarters of the poorest households would be better off splitting up. And when money is tight, that is exactly what happens."

What Is a CCTV Monitor?

CCTV stands for closed-circuit television. A CCTV monitor refers to one of the screens used in closed-circuit television.

Identification

1. Closed-circuit television is a system where images from cameras are sent to monitors that are directly connected to the cameras, unlike other types of broadcasting, which use airwaves to conduct signals.

Effects

2. Closed-circuit television can only be viewed on specific monitors and cannot be seen on televisions or other devices that are not directly connected to the cameras.

Uses

3. CCTV monitors display pictures used for a variety of purposes, including monitoring traffic, to show pictures at sporting events, to detect crimes and to monitor the functioning of machines or other equipment in factories.

Features

4. On most CCTV monitors, you can adjust the brightness and contrast to improve the display picture and turn off the equipment when not in use. CCTV monitors are available in black and white and color.

Benefits

5. When CCTV monitors are in plain view of the public, they may reduce the threat of vandalism and theft as potential perpetrators know they are being watched. In industrial settings, CCTV monitors help ensure quality control and productivity.

What Is CCTV?

Closed circuit television, or CCTV, is used in different situations all over the world, and there is a good chance that most people have appeared on a CCTV network, whether they intended to or not. Most retail businesses employ a CCTV system to keep track of each customer that enters a store, deterring theft and vandalism.

Identification

1. A CCTV network can only be accessed by display units directly connected to the network. A CCTV network uses coaxial cable, infrared beams or microwaves to broadcast the signal to the connected receivers. This differs from a standard open television network in that anyone tuned to the open network's frequency can access the images being broadcast. With CCTV, the access is restricted.

Functions

2. CCTV has many practical applications, and it is in use in facilities and homes all over the world. A company may employ a CCTV network as a form of security to monitor the company grounds, and a private residence can employ a CCTV network in the same way. CCTV networks can be used in hospitals to allow nurses to keep an eye on multiple patients at the same time, and they can also be used to monitor traffic at busy intersections.

Features

3. The majority of the video cameras used in a CCTV network use cameras that have a charged coupled device (CCD) chip for capturing digital images. This device creates images using small charges of electricity that are emitted when light hits a pixel. Each CCD chip generates hundreds of thousands of pixels that make up the image.

Recording Device

4. Each CCTV network has a time-lapse recording device that captures the images and stores them for use at a later time. Many CCTV networks are beginning to implement digital archiving systems that store all of the images on a series of computer hard drives, but many existing CCTV networks use VHS tape as their method of recording. With CCTV time-lapse technology, it is possible to store 24 hours of surveillance on one tape.

Monitors/Displays

5. Monitoring CCTV cameras can be done in different ways. In some cases, a CCTV is meant for entertainment purposes, such as the presentation of a boxing match on a pay-per-view network, so these CCTV images are professionally edited for presentation. Most CCTV networks use switchers, quads or multiplexors to keep track of what each camera is capturing. A switcher displays the image from a camera for a few seconds and then automatically switches to the next camera. A quad system feeds images from up to four cameras into one display. The images of each camera in a quad system are recorded separately, but the quality is diminished because they only occupy one-fourth of the screen. A multiplexor is a high-speed switching device that can display and record the images of up to 16 cameras in full-screen mode and quality.

Survey reveals more CCTV cameras per head of population than almost anywhere else in London

THERE are more CCTV cameras in Redbridge than in almost any other London borough.

A survey by civil liberties group Big Brother Watch discovered that out of the 32 boroughs, only Wandsworth has more council-run cameras per head of population than Redbridge.

From their control room in Ilford, council operators have 2.8 cameras to watch every 1,000 people in the borough, and the borough’s total of 668 is the third highest number of any in the city.

Earlier this year, the council's decision to install 11 new cameras along George Lane in South Woodford was met with criticism from local business owners and shoppers.

Joe Federico, co-owner of Little Woodford Cafe in George Lane, said: “If they are going to fine people just for parking for one minute in George Lane it's going to be very bad for business. I can't understand the logic behind it really.

“The council might make money out of fining people but they're going to lose money on rates as you're going to have more empty units because shops will suffer.”

Neighbouring Waltham Forest council has just 74 cameras – or only 0.3 for every 1,000 people, while Newham has 204, which equates to 0.8 per 1,000.

Concern has been raised about the fact that many of the cameras may in fact not be working at any one time, and earlier this month police said that cameras on the Orchard Estate had failed to record the mugging of a man who was attacked by 16 robbers.

Redbridge Council’s cabinet member for community safety, Vanessa Cole, said: “I would say that residents have been the driving force for CCTV. All the surveys conducted for the last four years or so have put crime prevention and the fear of crime at the top of residents' lists of priorities.

"Our CCTV operators are trained to a very high degree and you will know that the borough commander has praised staff in their help in regard to several serious incidents, the murder in Ilford, the culprits were caught within 15 minutes of the incident, saving approximately £45,000 in police time and costs."

A spokesman for Big Brother Watch said: “Local councils across Britain are creating enormous networks of CCTV surveillance at great expense, but the evidence for the ability of CCTV to deter or solve crimes is sketchy at best.”

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ROCHDALE has twice as many CCTV cameras as Bury and Oldham, research has revealed.

There are currently 170 cameras covering the borough, with the majority in Rochdale town centre, Freehold, Lower Falinge and College Bank.

Footage from the cameras, which record 24 hours a day, is kept for one month and is often used to help convict criminals and produced as evidence during court cases.

But campaign group Big Brother Watch, which released the report after sending a Freedom of Information request to every council in the country, claims the network is expensive and ineffective.

Director Alex Deane said: "People in Rochdale will rightly be wondering why they're being watched so much more than their neighbours in Bury and Oldham, and why their council decided to spend so much more of their taxpayer money on CCTV.

"The Metropolitan Police have said that only one crime is solved for every 1,000 cameras and there is no evidence to suggest that this kind of heavy surveillance is as good as spending the money getting officers back on the beat."

Despite the installation of each camera going through a strict-decision making process the council could not release the cost for the running and maintenance of the system.

Councillor Ted Flynn, cabinet member for Community Safety, said: "Our fixed cameras were bought and installed many years ago.

"The price of our cameras varies greatly and so does the installation costs. There's a strict decision-making process that assesses the needs of an area before deciding on what type of camera is needed to make sure it's an effective and worthwhile investment.

"Our preference is to use mobile CCTV that can be deployed to our crime hotspot areas in response to a sudden spike in incidents.

"Nowadays we tend to use these cameras a lot more and find that it's been very successful in helping us to reduce crime and make hotspot areas safer by deterring and catching troublemakers.

"We also know that their presence is a great reassurance to the public."

A new code of practice was launched by private company Safe Guard, which controls the majority of CCTV cameras in Rochdale, at the end of last year.

The code asked the police to submit a report every two years, with the first one expected in 2011, indicating the impact CCTV has had on crime, a comparison of crime in areas without CCTV and carry out formal consultation with business premises.

It will be the first report of its kind to be published.

Superintendent Martin Greenhalgh said: "CCTV forms an integral part of our investigation process.

"It is a tool that is used on a daily basis for lines of enquiry and is something we welcome.

"Our cameras are predominantly used in town centre locations and provide reassurance to the community. They can help in reducing crime and disorder and support investigations.

"We take crime fighting seriously and the cameras across the borough help us in doing this effectively."

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