Thursday, 27 October 2011

CCTV Documentaries

I know for a fact there have been UK documentaries on CCTV and surveillance, but there appears to be no visual traces of this. There was a documentary on CCTV on Tonight: With Trevor McDonald on ITV, but the only site I could find for it is this. I haven't even been able to find Youtube footage.
There was also a Dispatches episode on CCTV, but again, nothing visual, just the knowledge of its existence from somebody's CV:

Other proof the documentary does exist is this article from: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_19990321/ai_n13936603/

This highlights the issue of a man who felt he was wrongly accused of a robbery as a result of the CCTV footage showing a man who 'resembled' this same man.

 In a documentary about CCTV for the Channel 4 series Dispatches, to be screened on Thursday, an expert witness compares the CCTV footage of Alan Church recorded during the building society raid with mugshots taken at a similar angle. "I don't believe they are the same person," said Alf Linney, of University College London. Ironically, Church's best chance of clearing his name relies on the CCTV image of the raid being treated as the only enduring record of the crime. The prosecution relied on four eyewitnesses, though the video itself shows clear similarities between Church and the image captured by the surveillance cameras. However Bruce's research shows that such images are open to misinterpretation. "There's a need to be cautious about the use of this evidence in court," she said. "I just feel there should be a warning that if an image of the person looks like someone, it isn't necessarily that person."



Another documentary by Panorama on CCTV by the BBC has also been made, but again it is not accessible.

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