GUEST POST BY DUG STOKES
Have you ever felt like being paid for watching live CCTV footage? The BBC are reporting CCTV site, 'Internet Eyes' is doing exactly that. Offering up to £1000 to people who report suspicious activity, the scheme seems an easy way to make money.
Let me just go though these figures again:
There's 10,524 CCTV Cameras
They cost us £200 million over 10 years
These CCTV cameras solved 10 crimes per year
That means the cost to solve once crime with CCTV: £2 million per crime.
There's 4.4 million crimes per year
Crimes solved by Police: 22%
There's this many Police: 136,000
So they solve this many crimes per year: 968,000
On average, a copper will solve this many crimes per year: 7
The average Police wage: £30,000
That means the cost to solve one crime: less than £5,000.
I don't see how this is workable. Either I've got my figures wrong, or some CCTV company is making way too much money.