Camera surveillance within the UK: Enhancing public safety or a social threat?

2013 ◽  
pp. 93-104
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Social Threat ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Camera Surveillance

scholarly journals Enhancing national resilience: The citizenAID initiative

Trauma ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-85
Author(s):  
TJ Hodgetts ◽  
KM Porter ◽  
PF Mahoney ◽  
A Thurgood ◽  
C McKinnie
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Metropolitan Police ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Police Commissioner

Events in Europe in the last year have shown there is a realistic threat to public safety in the UK from shooting, stabbing and bombing incidents. In an interview with BBC on 31 July 2016, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner stated that an attack within UK was a case of ‘when not if’. citizenAID empowers the public to take action to save lives and thereby enhance national resilience.

Liquefied Energy Gases in the UK: What Price Public Safety?

1981 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 339-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally M Macgill
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Hazard Control ◽  
The Uk

Twelve serious inadequacies of hazard-control policy in the United Kingdom as it relates to liquefied energy gases (LEGs) are identified in this paper. These inadequacies are discussed against a background of the hazard properties of liquefied energy gases and associated hazard incidents (actual and potential), the growing scale on which these substances are handled, and with reference to large-scale liquefied energy gas facilities currently being developed in Fife, Scotland. It is argued that the hazards posed far outweigh the safety measures practiced.

New legislation in the UK designed to increase public safety — a psychiatric view

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 141-142
Author(s):  
P.J.M. Banerjee ◽  
S. Geelan
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
The Uk

The Right to Public Privacy under Surveillance

2012 ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Christina M. Akrivopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Surveillance System ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Surveillance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Right ◽  
Camera Surveillance

This chapter is critically commenting on the augmenting policy of public surveillance through the ‘Public Camera Surveillance’ system (CCTV technology) in Greece and in other countries such as the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia. It presents the arguments in favor and against such policies and the main threats that such policy-making poses for the freedom of the individual as represented in the relevant jurisprudence of the ECtHR. The main argument of the presentation underlines the need for the interpretive deduction of a right to anonymity or otherwise of a right to public privacy from the traditional notion of privacy. This right enables the individual to enjoy his/her privacy in public, thus allowing him/her to circulate in public assured that his/her presence will remain anonymous and permitting him/her to merge within the rest of the crowd. Such a right is specifically valuable in order to protect the political autonomy of the individual as a participant of demonstrations and public movements or manifestations under the precondition that his/her deeds do not merit the state’s intervention. The presentation closes with some remarks on the changing social and political ethos that brings forward the demand of public surveillance as a need for public safety.

scholarly journals Reclaiming the Streets: Closed Circuit Television, Neoliberalism and the Mystification of Social Divisions in Liverpool, UK

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (2/3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roy Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Visual Surveillance ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
North West ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The North ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Camera Surveillance

The normalisation of camera surveillance on the streets of the UK raises profound questions about the strategies of contemporary urban political rule and the material and ideological re-mapping of urban space. Firstly, this paper will argue that an understanding of street camera surveillance requires a consideration of the operation of neoliberalism at the local level [in this case Liverpool on the north west coast of England] through a myriad of 'partnership' arrangements that have shifted the terrain of local democracy and the meanings of both the public interest and social justice. Secondly, in using case material from a paradigmatic neoliberalising city, the paper argues that surveillance cameras are part of a social control strategy that seeks to hide the consequences of neoliberalisation in creating a particular ambience and exclusivity regarding 'public' spaces. Thirdly, the paper critically considers whether we can understand visual surveillance as a technique for the 'exclusion of difference' in urban space or as a tool that suppresses the reality of social divisions.

london Mental care versus public safety in the UK

The Lancet ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 352 (9145) ◽  
pp. 1995
Author(s):  
Malcolm Dean
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Mental Care

The siting of nuclear power stations and public safety in the UK

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Openshaw
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Power Stations ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals "Faces Tracking from Multi-Surveillance Camera (FTMSC)"

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Hasanen S. Abdullah ◽  
Sana A. Jabber
Keyword(s):  
Parallel Processing ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
Local Binary Patterns ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
Target Face ◽  
Surveillance Systems ◽  
Surveillance Camera ◽  
Surveillance Cameras ◽  
Camera Surveillance ◽  
Traditional Surveillance

"The development of a robust and integrated multi-camera surveillance device is an important requirement to ensure public safety and security. Being able to re-identify and track one or more targets in different scenes with surveillance cameras. That remains an important and difficult problem due to clogging, significant change of views, and lighting across cameras. In this paper, traditional surveillance systems developed and supported by intelligent techniques. That system have ability to performance the parallel processing of all cameras to track peoples in the different scenes (places). In addition, show information about authorized people appearing on surveillance cameras and issue a warning whistle to alert security men if any unauthorized person appears. We used Viola and Jones approach to detected face, and then classifying the target face as one of the authorized faces or not by using Local Binary Patterns (LBP)."

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