Is CCTV effective in preventing youth crime?

How to make real difference in reducing crime and tackling its causes is always a big debate.  Some people think that the best way to stop crime is by introducing CCTV cameras.  Recently this debate took place in a local estate and most of the residents opted to install cameras to stop the youth from [...]

News Summary August 2009

Gangster branded ‘The General’ who led violent gang locked away for 39 years Mass mugging gang locked up Sir Paul Stephenson: police are failing the public on organised crime Are we all capable of violence? CCTV schemes in city and town centres have little effect on crime, says report Mexican drug gang frees 53 in [...]

‘Catch me if you can,’ said student behind biggest chip and PIN fraud

The computer mastermind behind Britain’s biggest counterfeit credit card factory was jailed yesterday. Anup Patel had amassed almost £2 million after details of 19,000 cards and PINs were stolen from British users. He set up a network of couriers to deliver batches of fake cards abroad to exploit a loophole in the chip-and-PIN banking security [...]