Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of closed-circuit television cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place on a limited set of monitors. Image by ...

CCTV images have been released in a bid to help detectives working on some of Merseyside's unsolved crimes. These range from a "brutal" attack on a homeless man to violent scenes in a pub which left ...

The Seattle City Council voted overwhelmingly in favor of adding surveillance cameras to the city's crime-fighting toolbelt. "This is an important piece of technology that can help our [police] ...

Place-based crime-prevention interventions have been critiqued for the short duration of reductions in crime they produce. In a new study, researchers evaluated the long-term impacts of a large public ...

KENYA: Is Kenya ready to adopt closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras in the fight against crime? Or are plans to bring Big Brother tactics to town an expensive waste of time? These are the ...

SEATTLE — The city of Seattle is seeking public feedback on a plan to put cameras and other technologies in high-crime neighborhoods after funding for the systems was proposed by Mayor Bruce Harrell ...

ROURKELA: Lack of a systematic electronic surveillance system has become a major bottleneck for Rourkela police in effective monitoring of crimes and quick identification of criminals in the steel ...

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MUMBAI, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - One evening last month on a desolate backstreet in the Indian city of Indore, robbers held up a motorcyclist, threatened him at knifepoint and made off ...

A young product designer from the University of Dundee called Lee Murray has created a piece called The Observer. Not to be confused with the Sunday newspaper of the same name, The Observer is a ...