Mobile camera puts yobs in frame - BBC today

BBC Online 25th May 2005
A new mobile CCTV camera is to target troublemakers in Plymouth city centre.

Police will be able to deploy the £15,000 battery-powered machine at problem areas and monitor it from a viewer hidden in a briefcase.

It will also be linked to the CCTV centre which monitors 250 cameras in the city centre.

Town centre manager David Draffan, said: "It's like James Bond. Officers will be able to sit in a cafe round the corner and watch what's going on."

The machine, paid for by the city council and Home Office, will be deployed from Wednesday.(today)

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Well I suppose it beats having someone on ...the ...er well...beat ? But then he wouldn't feel like 007 then would he? Now is this discouraging crime ?

This is the sort of infantile thinking that pervades the idea of crime prevention in our towns and cities.