Stock photography picture of surveillance cameras ,London,England

AN41NW - Licenced Caption surveillance cameras ,London,England Description The exact number of CCTV cameras in the UK is not known but a 2002 working paper by Michael McCahill and Clive Norris of UrbanEye based on a small sample in Putney High Street estimated the number of surveillance cameras in private premises in London is around 500 000 and the total number of cameras in the UK is around 15 500 000 The UK has one camera for every 5 people The most measurable effect of CCTV is not on crime prevention but on detection and prosecution Keywords CCTV, surveillance, freedom, privacy, monitoring, Big, Brother, liberty, human, rights, spying, public, places, tube, station, London, policing, watching, bird, sky, symbolic