INTELLIGENT pedestrian surveillance (IPS) systems promise to spot potential crimes before you or I would realise anything was amiss. And if the technology takes off, it could put an end to a long-standing problem that has dogged closed circuit (CCTV) systems from the beginning, as Jenny Hogan has written (Â鶹´«Ã½, 12 July, p 4). There are too many cameras – a million in the UK – and too few pairs of eyes to keep track of them.
I raised this issue with Home Office community safety minister Hazel Blears. She told me that the Home Office is aware that imaging…
