Of All The CCTV Cameras Installed Throughout The World Around 20% Of These Can Be Found In The UK.
Add to Information BasketThere are an estimated 4.3 million CCTV cameras installed in the UK alone!
CCTV in Britain's streets can trace its genesis back to a limited system set up for the Queen's coronation in 1953. By the 1960s there was permanent CCTV in some London streets. Now there are an estimated 4,300,000 cameras in the country, viewing us as many as 300 times a day.
There is now around one CCTV camera for every 14 people in the UK.
CCTV cameras in stores monitor shoplifters, those in cash machines look for fraud gangs, those on public transport watch vandals and thugs. But they also watch ordinary people at the same time.
Digital CCTV systems can be configured to use face-recognition and look for criminal suspects.
An estimated £500m of public money has been spent on installing CCTV in the last decade.
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