Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
CCTV in the passage
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Permalink Reply by DTW on
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It would rely upon residents with houses on the passage being willing to have the cameras added. After that it would be fairly easily I would have thought to have them all going off to a single server that could be reviewed if needed. Cameras are cheap these days and its main impact would be a deterant. If people want to stop drug dealing I would have thought a Camera is a pretty good step.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Funny. I was thinking just 3 mins ago about putting a CCTV camera with a seismic monitor and speed camera type device on my first floor window ledge overlooking the road to see (1) which prat in an (I believe) Ocado van keeps coming off the raised crossing like he was driving the General Lee, and (2) seeing what types of vehicles are shaking my house to bits and how they do it as they drive off said raised crossing.
I really was!
Relevance? I have seen discussion of something like this in the past, but we were told we are not allowed to have CCTV pointing into the street, data protection, kids, etc, etc. The issue is private use of imagine. Apparently we cannot be trusted!
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Plenty of people have cameras affixed from their house facing out. I don't see how a camera on the side of a house covering the front would cause an issue. If it also covers the passage ...
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Just imagine that Princess Dianne is outside your house in the street. Are you allowed to photograph her? Why yes, yes you are. Publish? Now that's another matter.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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I would guess if they were to be effective you would need about 18 cameras to cover the length of the Passage.
Unless they were deterrent non-operational dummies.
However, they could help to identify anti-social dog owners as well as drug dealers.
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Yeah - a few dummies wouldn't matter. To be honest having a scan of a few websites you could do a fairly good job for under £5,000.
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Would you please go along to the next Friends of Harringay Passage meeting with your proposal?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I've just added a tag under the main post above which, if you click it, will link you to two similar threads, one in 2010 and one in 2011.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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You have to be really careful about this. While anyone can install CCTV to monitor private land, once images are captured of people on public land (like the highway, footpaths etc.,) that then may be subject to the Data Protection Act. If that were the case the owner of the camera(s) would have to register with the Information Commissioner. They would need a disclosure policy, a retention policy, have signage that alerted people to the fact that they were being monitored by CCTV and may have to surrender images to anyone who thinks they may have been captured and recorded.
https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/cctv
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Absolutely right Michael. Law enforcement should be left to law enforcement agencies. The legalities around using footage that are captured by non official systems are a nightmare. And frankly that is as it should be. This is not an appropriate area for "self help".
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