void wearing conspicous clothing, a ths takes ou ae out ES poate obama te one oie cameras alr the dash gu camara dept the forse, end Gd ‘hema hue, tot lourng there ambi. Tho Dom place ay Wala width cop carers tedontoa andthe cameras of V txews or i practise! purposes, the Two” are insitingushable) try the sana tira oh fuveto, seously camoras, fart for the Eirecoment value, but Gis wil not abmars ‘yor; as many hive a glare coutgs on {ale lonaas of are keyed fr nightie ts, Sedinboth soe ilfntegitertegh rele flight Many seca cameras il wor at Sight elder with to ad of foedlging ‘ih intaved, You caa be seen In pich CONCLUSION Careora survedlance is entering ou ies increasingly, and because of thei: mumbers, we often simply fal tonotiea them. They are ‘eed and monitored by two seperaie groups. Firsily, the pelice and state ascurity agencies, and secondly by the properied classes, who are unhappy with the leval of service that they Ste goting fom thelr sosurty guards (the pelle). Video camazaschovké be vundalired Stevary possible cance. Spraypaist oniothe Jense, stickers, glass @ich fui, a lump atranet, o¢, Big Brothers waiching You! if Mh / li »/ ee a 4 = oe POLICE HELICOPTERS AND THEIR VIDEO CAPACITY ‘The Metropolilar police in London have at pravont two helicopters stationed al Lippics Hil, rut they will be getting mote in the fue, and thai technology will be Improving. As iis, he helicopiems carry radio receiving and tansmisslon capabibiles on microwave frequencies, video surveillance ‘equipmant, aight saarchighta, loud halors ‘tnd on board computer cermin, ‘The radio equiprien! allows them to be on constant contact with the ground, and their rerponse tims le very fa: they ean fyacroce tendon in 18 minutes. The plow are poles sfficars, and not privately Bred (lying pigs?) ‘Tha video camera is mounted ta the side of the fusclags in a glebo cover. The camores ude remote, and can be pointed in wry direction, and are of a quality that can can focus, pick outand recorda ice ina crowd. ‘The picture is menitered on beard, but using micfoware twanamiaion it can! also be monitored on the ground, fom vars oc a ‘cormmand centre at Hew Scotland Yard. Ths fyttem is called Halo-Tals’, and in practica Rmveans that an individual ina crowd can bo. Ikolated, followed, KientiZed, and police on the ground can be directed 20 tun/her Dy tadio, even when ba/she is only vsibie from the aix. At right timo, the camera is sonplemerted by «very; \dizectonal ‘Searchlight, although itcan use existing ict, fr work on infra-red frequencies, bat with & Aictinet loce of quality. This tschaclogy has long since beon used hy the occupation army { Ussier ior spotting night ume movements, ‘especially along tha barder.in places where thera is largo amount of residual heat, euch, ss in built ap areas, image intensifiers lose much of their efactivenass. ‘Tho on board corpuler that these holicoptors cary is a forminal, which means that they have all the information on the PNC. to work wilh. This Tuakes st antoromocs, In pructica they can spot a car fom the air, room fxon its plates, and find outthe name, address ‘of the owner/previous owners, cciminal yacord of the owner, in fact all information available on the PNG. Police helicopters cay @ lot of heat sensitive equipment, and they really don’t ike things like rockers and distress flares being red at them, 10 this Io all 1 can suggest to annoy ther, short of bullding a microwave ‘adio jammer, or fring a SAM missile al thera. By