CCTV has 'no significant impact' on cutting crime

CCTV is only effective in cutting vehicle crime and has little effect in reducing other offences, research for the Home Office has found.

The review of a series of CCTV studies revealed cameras that flood town centres and housing estates do not have a significant impact on crime.



In one city, it only led to increased reporting of offences to the police.

It will renew fears over the role of the CCTV network in the UK, which is already the largest in the world with the equivalent of one camera for every 12 people.