Have Your Say

Matt Fuidge
Yes if the Operators actually do there job and have the local back up from the police which probally isnt the case, I wonder if they should train police to do a better job with the money.

Marc
Should have a camera on every cycle parking area in the city centre as the police don't investigate cycle theft anymore. They just give you a reference number and look at you as if you are wasting their time.

Mike Keen
Money better spent elsewhere

Paul
one set of numbers will explain all: 1984

Biccy
Surely no one is actually going to see these cameras as a threat? Plus for teens and drunks its great fun to mess about infront of them!

karina
that's going to be a jail this country! peoples will be controlled, and not only the problematic ones but everybody... why not install some special institutions for anti-behavioural childrens for a start.. in which they will receive some help and guidance... that's more social, it will help more than a machine.. you can't talk with a robot!

anonymous
that's going to be a jail this country! peoples will be controlled, and not only the problematic ones but everybody...

john lewis
its a complete joke....this country is turning into a police state where i feel i have no privacy what so ever....it needs to change

Dave
This is so silly - the kids and drunks will just find it amusing and 'wind up' the person manning the camera !!

Genie
"It's a useful tool. It gives a warning rather than having to take direct action if people don't behave sociably.And if they ignore that warning? What then? Nothing is my bet. Expensive, ineffective and all a bit 1984 really. I can think of much better things to spend the money on as I'm sure could most people.

sam
i agree with 'dave', youths are going to ignore the cameras and take the micy (i'd know, i'm 14)

Nick
What the public need, is the visibile reassurance of more police on the streets. Labour is good at not listening and wasting money so this no surprise.

Fred
I cannot belive what I'm reading. Not only will people be watched all the time they're in central Bristol now some anonymous operative (employed by ?) in a 'control' room will be able to offer a 'friendly word' on our behaviour. When was the Council vote on this? When was the consultation? Who controls the people in the control room? If this was in place in Baghdad before Saddham was overthrown it would have been used as an example of his tyranny. Stalin and Hitler would have been first in the queue for this technology. Slowly but surely we're giving away all our freedoms and privacy and if we don't stand up to this lunacy we're all done for.

Paul
Too late they are already here!

48/49
Er, why not just have more Police on the streets? At least then a group of trouble makers can be followed from one area to another, rather than congregating in areas off camera. It'll become the new craze to bait the cameras (or operators, if they aren't council robots that is) into a response.

Dave
can you picture the scene?.. a youth drops a bit of litter.. cctv : Dont do that, pick it up.. Youth replys with a one finger salute and walks off.

Barbara Crow
It is bad enough to know that we are the most surveyed nation in the western world without having the cameras actually speaking to us as well! No,no, no! Please do not do this. They will ultimately be ignored and are an invasion of one's privacy. Just get more police out there. That is what people want.