Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) is a visual surveillance technology designed to monitor activities in a specific area. The area which it covers depends upon the quality of the camera's lens and its purpose. Someone said, "Today's opportunist is tomorrow's professional criminal. If we decrease the number of opportunities for easy crime, we can reduce the number of people becoming professional criminals".
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CCTV cameras are all around us. May be one of them is watching you right now when you are reading this article. CCTV cameras are hidden most of the time so that no one can see them and rightly so. This is because of the purpose they serve. Its purpose is to monitor activities without being noticed by someone and to do that they are most of the time hidden. The use of CCTV cameras is increasing day by day. Cameras are installed in public areas, car parks, inside Automatic Teller Machines, motorways etc. In today's time the need for CCTV cameras to be installed is more than ever felt before. This is because of increasing number of street crimes, terrorism, racial abuse, sexual abuse, in-house violence and other criminal activities. A very important in-house use of a CCTV camera would be to keep an eye on the activities of the baby sitter when you are not home. It will clearly tell you whether to keep that baby sitter or not.
If we take the example of UK, it is claimed that there are around 4.2 million CCTV cameras but according to the research undertaken by the deputy chief constable of Cheshire, Graeme Gerrard, there are only 1.85 million CCTV cameras in the UK. Similarly, other countries are realizing the need for CCTV cameras and are adopting this technology rapidly.
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In my next post I will share my thoughts with you about, "are CCTV cameras invading our privacy"?
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