CCTV studied in hit-and-run case
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Police examine CCTV footage taken from buses near to where a girl was killed in a hit-and-run in Edinburgh.
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The long arm of the net A businessman on holiday in Spain was able to alert police of a raid on his home in the UK because he'd invested in an expensive net-connected CCTV system. Engineering boss John Ellison, 52, watched the attack on his Lancaster home unfold on a laptop PC he'd taken on holiday with him to Malaga, Spain.â¦
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Investigators try to establish why a young man killed on the M25 ran from police moments before he was hit by a van.
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Police probing the Ufton Nervet train crash are focusing on why a motorist parked his car in the path of the high-speed service. Seven people died when the train ploughed into the car after the man, apparently
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(InfoWorld) - The City of Chicago is developing a futuristic video surveillance system designed to scan city streets looking for everything from bombs to traffic jams. For the past few years Chicago has been rolling out thousands of video surveillance cameras linked by fiber-optic cables. This Operation Virtual Shield system is intended to give the city's emergency response coordination agency the ability to remotely keep track of emergencies in real time. Now, with the help of IBM, Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) is looking to expand the system's capabilities so thatÂ IBM's software can analyze the thousands of hours of videoÂ being recorded by Operation Virtual Shield. "That's really going to just throw our camera network into hyperdrive," said Kevin Smith, a spokesman with the OEMC. "Ultimately I think what this software might be able to do is simply recognize suspicious behavior and alert our operations people and, at times, our crime detections specialists as to what it sees." The software could recognize a package that had been left in a public park or a car parked where no car is supposed to be, Smith said. IBM has been pushing a similar technology called Smart Surveillance System within the retail industry as a tool to fight shoplifting. The Smart Surveillance System was spun out of IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center earlier this year. Now IBM is talking to a number of cities about rolling out similar projects, according to Sam Docknevich, a Digital Video Surveillance National Practice Leader with IBM. However none is as advanced as the Operation Virtual Shield effort. "Chicago is definitely the leading example of the value of integrating video from multiple organizations and using it to enhance public safety," he said. OEMC's Smith would not say how much the city is spending on the project or when it expects IBM's video analytics capabilities to go live. The trick will be to make the analytics software work in a useful way. "The challenge is going to be teaching computers to recognize the suspicious behavior," said Smith. "Once this is done this will be a very impressive city in terms of public safety." Â
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Law Enforcement agencies across the country are adding a new technology known as LPR, or License Plate Recognition, to help them fight crime, child abductions and terrorism.
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Police collect and view CCTV in a bid to retrace the steps of a missing woman but are unable to identify her.
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A camera-equipped robot, a three-wheeled car and avatars were the subjects of some of this week's video highlights.
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Britons are observed by thousands of CCTV cameras every day. Now, some of the cameras are letting people know they're being watched
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Police took up pursuit in cyberspace after a young Norwegian posted on the Internet video of his wild car driving.Comment
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YouTube biker questioned A man has been accused of driving his motorcycle through a built-up area at over 100 miles per hour, filming the ride and posting the footage on the internet. Jeremy Parrott, 37, of Somerset, was questioned by police after they saw the video on YouTube.â¦
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Police are looking for three men after a hit-and-run in Edinburgh which led to the death of a 10-year-old boy.
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Covert use may breach RIPA The Home Office is reviewing the legal status of automatic number plate surveillance cameras after the chief surveillance commissioner advised they could be operating unlawfully.â¦
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An investigation is launched after one person is killed and 20 injured in crashes involving more than 40 vehicles.
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By HYWEL TREWYN  NORTH Wales Police have nailed a sophisticated scam in which computer hackers obtained pay-for-view television free.   A house in Anglesey was the centre of an international operation which took several months to carry out.
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Police appeal to the UK's road hauliers to find a hit-and-run lorry driver after a collision which killed a boy of 10.
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Courtroom cameras may be making a comeback