Returning from my Christmas shopping travels in Norwich yesterday, I passed a GATSO speed camera on Ipswich Road (the one by City College if you know it). Last few times I was in Norwich, it had been put out of use by local hooligans/vandals/vigilantes/heroes (depending on your viewpoint - my personal view is that mobile police speed controls are fairer and more effective at reducing casualties on the road, and that speed is just one of many variables affecting road safety. But I digress). Now it has been reinstated - but what caught my attention was a yellow sign on the base of the camera, stating that the camera was subject to "24hr CCTV surveillance" - the surveillance has its own surveillance!
Strange times indeed. But I wonder: just who or what's watching the camera that's watching the camera?
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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I do hope by "mobile police speed controls" you mean actual police officers and not those cowards that sit in the back of their Ford Transits with a hand-held Gatso? But I agree, it's definately not in the interests of road safety to find out you've been speeding up to 2 weeks after you've actually done it. I'd much rather be told off by a real person (well nearly in the case of a copper anyway).
ReplyDeleteAnd heroes would be the correct name for those brave few.