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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

Cut out the ****ing sarcasm because its childish. I did read the article and I don't except the excuses.

Yeah, to save 1m. Mental. Wouldn't even really save that anyway

Terror and policing expert David Videcette told the Standard earlier this month: "It will be a huge, huge loss to police.

"All council CCTV networks are a massive resource to police, have a massive impact on bringing down anti-social behaviour, crime, drug dealing, they are very, very valuable to police.

"It's crazy - the money the council will spend on putting things right, vandalism, theft from local authority premises, it will pay for itself twice over.

"And there's a risk if there was a terrorist attack and we had to track a terrorist's movements.”

Luckily the terrorists didn't need tracked, but thats just that...luck

Are council budgets really cut THAT much that they would be desperately scrabbling to save 1m somewhere?! I know our council is struggling. I did think it would be different in the South, an d certainly in London :/



parmnion - where on earth are you finding that this was the advice of the Mayor?

Bahhh

“We will keep talking and in the past week have had very constructive discussions with the Mayor, the Metropolitan Police and Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.

I read your post wrong. Yes, it seems the Mayor was spoken to about it. Doesn't say if he supported the switchoff (I doubt it) nor if the met did (also doubt)