Town centre CCTV cameras get an upgrade (From Basingstoke Gazette)

It’s interesting that this is now being done. However will the locals and other campaigners start going on about human rights being breached then? Apart from watching the criminals doing wrong and alerting the hard pressed, understaffed police, about their actions… what use is this???

There is not enough man power in Andover, to respond to what is going on inside of this town, so everything is prioritised.
Hence small time crime, from which bigger ones, stems, don’t get stamped out.
Before someone is classed as a ‘ villain ‘
They can, and should be stopped, from a life of petty anti social behaviour…
Vandalism, obscene littering, breaking glass windows, tyre slashing, graffiti of any type it’s the petty things that go unchecked, that show that our hard pressed, and non valued police are up against it…
We need to Shame and Name…. CCTV without power, is the same probably, as having a cardboard policeman, standing there watching us… Yobs laugh because they know their behaviour is going, and can go, unchecked. Still human rights must be protected….never mind proving that you are innocent till proven guilty. If you are seen on a camera, doing wrong. Then why can we not consider Shaming and Naming. ( at least lets discuss this as an option)

I am in total agreement with a 'Naming and Shaming' policy. Those who do no wrong have nothing to fear.

But of course those who will have to make the decision will shy away from it as they don't have the balls to implement such a policy.