Your [“East London Advertiser” online, Tuesday 30 November 2010] report contains the following
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A council spokesman said: “Locations for CCTV cameras have been identified through reported crime and anti-social behaviour rates.
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What is the evidence for the Council “spokesman” making that assertion?
What published Council document contains that evidence [if any such verifiable evidence exists]?
As we have demonstrated in the comments posted on your web site in relation to the recent range of claims by Tower Hamlets Council bureaucracy, they are engaging in propaganda and are not accounting for their conduct.
This is being done despite there being dozens of “elected” councillors.
What are those elected councillors doing about the CCTV surveillance?
Or is the Tower Hamlets Council’s self-appointed “Monitoring Officer” [who she!!!?] controlling the councillors who are supposed to be the “members of the Council’s Monitoring Committee”?
What if any report was published by Tower Hamlets Council showing an objectively verifiable correlation study of the Council’s spying on the people in Tower Hamlets and the link with any objectively desirable reduction in crimes, anti-social behaviour and other acts of violation?
Who are the Council’s employees with access to the data that is being gathered via CCTV cameras and related equipment that the Council has put in place for years now?
How many agencies have access to the data gathered through Tower Hamlets Council on the private lives of people in Tower Hamlets?
Who IF ANY is monitoring the access to the data and making sure that the data is not being abused in any way at all?
0455 Hrs Wednesday 01 December 2010
BHANGEELAAR!
THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST AN ELECTED EXECUTIVE MAYOR IN TOWER HAMLETS
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Tower Hamlets is third biggest London spender on new CCTV
Alistair Kleebauer, Reporter Tuesday, 30 November, 2010
18:00 PM
Big Brother is watching in Tower Hamlets, the third biggest spending London council on new CCTV cameras since 2007, according to a new report.
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Council chiefs spent £1,361,000 on new CCTV technology, including cameras, in the last three years making it the UK’s sixth highest spending council.
Only Hounslow and Enfield spent more among London councils.
It is also 13th in a table of total UK council spenders on CCTV, adding maintenance and staffing costs, with £2,897,000 spent between 2007 and 2010.
Birmingham Council topped the research conducted by Big Brother Watch, with £10,476,874 going on the technology in the same period.
Daniel Hamilton, campaign director for Big Brother Watch, said: “Taxpayers in Tower Hamlets, one of the UK’s poorest boroughs, will be scandalised to see their money being thrown away like this in the current economic climate.
“This is a shocking figure. Public money is being wasted on snooping surveillance that does next to nothing to prevent or solve crime.
“We are being watched more than ever before, and we’re being ripped off into the bargain.”
A council spokesman said: “Locations for CCTV cameras have been identified through reported crime and anti-social behaviour rates.
“At the moment there is no intention to add to the existing structure and no money is being made available for such work. Even so, we still get requests for CCTV.”
The council said there had been 701 arrests since January resulting from CCTV operators directing the police, including 115 for assault, 65 for robbery and 32 for burglary.
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· Your report contains the following; [Quote] A council spokesman said: “Locations for CCTV cameras have been identified through reported crime and anti-social behaviour rates. [Unquote] What is the evidence for the Council “spokesman” making that assertion? What published Council document contains that evidence [if any such verifiable evidence exists]? As we have demonstrated in the comments posted on your web site in relation to the recent range of claims by Tower Hamlets Council bureaucracy, they are engaging in propaganda and are not accounting for their conduct. This is being done despite there being dozens of “elected” councillors. What are those elected councillors doing about the CCTV surveillance? Or is the Tower Hamlets Council’s self-appointed “Monitoring Officer” [who she!!!?] controlling the councillors who are supposed to be the “members of the Council’s Monitoring Committee”? What if any report was published by Tower Hamlets Council showing an objectively verifiable correlation study of the Council’s spying on the people in Tower Hamlets and the link with any objectively desirable reduction in crimes, anti-social behaviour and other acts of violation? Who are the Council’s employees with access to the data that is being gathered via CCTV cameras and related equipment that the Council has put in place for years now? How many agencies have access to the data gathered through Tower Hamlets Council on the private lives of people in Tower Hamlets? Who IF ANY is monitoring the access to the data and making sure that the data is not being abused in any way at all? 0455 Hrs Wednesday 01 December 2010 BHANGEELAAR! THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST AN ELECTED EXECUTIVE MAYOR IN TOWER HAMLETS
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