Surveillance cameras
Darren Reed
avalon at coombs.anu.edu.au
Thu Mar 10 21:42:15 PST 1994
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> G
> PS London has the same degree of camera surveillance as you said
> Germany has. There's a big centre at Kings Cross Station where
> all the Railway Police have their monitors (of all the Underground
> entrances) and another one at New Scotland Yard where all the
> transport police have theirs. The ones in the underground - which
> are ostensibly just for mass crowd volume monitoring - have an
> absolutely deadly killer zoom lens that's centrally steerable.
>
> It's *way* overkill for the use it's supposed to be for...
Do the station staff ever use them ?
Here in Melbourne, all the underground railway stations have cameras
pointing at escalators, up and down the platforms, etc, but if you're
doing something silly like riding around on a chair that the ticket
guys usually sit upon, you can expect an announcement :) There is also
a window that looks into a `monitor' room from a public walkway at one.
Oh, and one of the cameras looking up a platform has gum fixed to part
of the cover in front of the lens :)
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