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Hooligans caught on CCTV both inside and outside West Ham United’s Upton Park stadium (officially known as The Boleyn Ground) could be in for life bans from the ground or even possible prison sentences. It’s also possible, or even likely, that the FA could choose to come down heavily on both West Ham United Football [...]

Samantha Wright has not been seen since June 2008, although her disappearance was not reported until January 2009 as her family did not hear from her at christmas time. Police have now released CCTV footage of her last known whereabouts.  The CCTV camera captured her in Edinburgh, on Hanover Street, talking to an unknown man [...]

Our covert body worn surveillance camera kit was used recently to capture the video and audio footage that lead to the headline news stories about MP Alan Duncan. The undercover footage was made by the team at Dont Panic magazine to bring in to the public domain the perceived lack of understanding by MP’s with [...]

A group of thieves crashed their car in to a pub in County Tyrone and stole a cash machine – they were caught by the pubs’ CCTV system. The incident took place at McAtee’s Pub in Fintona on Wednesday. Full BBC story and CCTV footage here. Technorati Tags: cash machine cctv, CCTV system, cctv system [...]

CCTV camera footage of a man recorded a few hours before he was found badly burned and naked has been released as police try to piece together his movements. 24 year old Tomasz Morawiak was found in Grantham, Lincolnshire with 80% burns on his body – Mr Morawiak managed to knock on a nearby front [...]

A full size sculpture of a horse was stolen from a house in Leeds, however the thieves were caught, by owners home CCTV system, loading up their getaway vehicle. The sculpture was valued at around £7000 and a second horse sculpture was also being stolen from the house before it got damaged and the thieves [...]

After approval by the city council many taxis in Leicester will be fitted with surveillance and CCTV cameras. Full story here. The in taxi cctv systems are designed to prevent attacks and crime against the drivers but will also help to act as evidence if a crime does take place in or around the taxi. [...]

Wyre council have invested £125k in a complete CCTV system for Fleetwood and have now given local traders the opportunity to visit the CCTV control centre. Some local traders expressed concern over the effectiveness of the CCTV system and so the council have invited them to pay a visit to the CCTV monitoring centre in [...]

The money shop in Slough was held up by 2 masked armed robbers in April of this year (2009), CCTV camera footage has now been released of a man wanted in connection with this crime. It is thought that the man opened an account in the shop, a few days earlier, using a false name [...]

Shocking CCTV system video footage of drugs being smuggled into prisons by visitors and then being passed on to inmates has been released. The CCTV footage here, from the BBC website, shows the problem – drugs in prisons is thought to have a considerable negative affect on any rehabilitation process that the inmates are involved [...]