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On the streets of Britain there will be installed surveillance cameras that will loudly reprimand the law breakers and those who throw garbage by the garbage bins. 12 of such cameras are already installed in the centre of Middlesbrough on the north of England. The image comes to the control centre and the personal seeing a hooligan can call him to order using a loudspeaker. As the member of the municipal council Barry Coppinger says, the "talking cameras" have already decreased the number of fights, vandalism and to reduce the amounts of garbage in the center of the city,
The Middlesbrough experiment was acknowledged as successful and the British minister for the internal affairs John Reed has ordered to budget 500 thousands pounds to the installation of such cameras in 20 more places all over England - some of the in some London districts. It is supposed that it will help to achieve order on the streets. But the project has already opponents that say that the constant surveillance is inconsiderable intervention into their private life. |
