Note
"December 2008".
Issued also in French under the title: La vidéosurveillance est-elle un outil de sécurité et de gestion efficace pour lutter contre la criminalité, faire baisser le taux de criminalité et renforcer le sentiment de sécurité ?
Summary
"The implementation and use of video surveillance (Closed Circuit Television technology) in societies across the globe has stimulated major debate on a handful of topics. This report aims to surface and synthesize those issues through an investigative and comparative analysis. The report will provide the reader with a variety of discussions, based on an objective analysis of available publications throughout the world. It addresses the history of CCTV and the main debates surrounding effectiveness and utility, it further evaluates the concept of the rise of surveillance societies and the protection of individual rights, and promotes further discussion and analysis through policy recommendations."--Page 4.