| Comment | I had my taxi's windscreen smashed around this time last year. I posted about it on here at the time. I park in private area to the rear of the building which is covered by CCTV with signs. I had to report the incident to the police to get a crime reference number for the commercial insurance. The police came out the next day (wasn't expecting them to show up at all) and I mentioned the cameras. They told me they'll look into the cameras but not to hold too much hope as CCTV is nearly always useless and acts as more of a deterrent than anything else. Got a phone call about 2 weeks later to tell me no joy on the cameras and I've never heard anything since.
Then around 6 or 7 years ago my mum had a knife pulled on her while out walking her dog. Main road covered by one of those massive cameras up on top of a lamp post style post. The camera caught the incident, but again was useless at actually identifying faces. Police relied on a mugshot book, but when they came round with it my mum refused to pick out the guy's face because "I need to live here".
TL;DR: CCTV is nearly always useless. It's a deterrent more than anything. Police will even say it. |
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