RE: CCTV Cameras

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Gerard,

Sorry to hear that - hope that you're OK and not too shaken.

Seriously though, it's a bugger, particularly when the police
"know" who it was, but can't get enough proof together, or end up
with only 5 minutes to brief the CPS lawyer, when the villain's been
rehearsing with his beak for the last 3 weeks.

I see two different sides to this:

1: My brother is a policeman, in the Met, and he sometimes gets VERY
angry/upset/annoyed about how difficult it can be to get a prosecution, and
how the system is manipulated by the intelligent organised criminals... a
friend of his has 78 complaints against him - this seems a lot until you
learn that there is an organised rota of people who come in to complain
about him... each complaint takes up a 3 or 4 man-hours of police time for
only a 10 minute time investment by the group he is trying to
investigate.

2: A school-friend of mine has a disabled father. A bunch of hooligans
broke into his (the father's) flat, trashed it, and torched it while he was
at a day-care centre. My friend came back at the weekend, and talked to the
police. The police were convinced they knew who'd done it, but couldn't
build a strong enough case. My mate, who had had to wait to the weekend
because he was in the navy took his brother, and a pair of baseball bats,
and kneecapped them. Unfortunately, he was kicked out of the navy, and had
to do 6 months because of it... but as he said to my mum a couple of weeks
ago "they torched my dad's flat - it was worth every minute
inside."

Compared to this, a bunch of security cameras, and some big signs saying
"security monitored" is probably the least one should do.

Mark

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