A plea from from the Fairfax House in York and the Peterborough police are asking for help identify these "grainy perps". One perp stole a 300-year-old brass barometer, and the biker is wanted in connection with a rape.
The United Kingdom has over 4 million public cameras which have been pronounced ineffective by researchers. However, that doesn't stop the police from posting grainy useless pictures to the media. It is estimated that 80% of all CCTV images are 'ineffective'.
Det Chief Inspector Mike Neville of Scotland Yard states:
Cameras do not act as a deterrent because many criminals assume they are not working. Police officers do not want to look through images "because it's hard work". Only three in 100 of London's muggings have been solved using CCTV images.
Hard work indeed.
So the lesson, I guess, is to not report your crime to the police, causing them further "hard work". You would only find out the photographic evidence of your crime is useless.
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