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CCTV to be Shut Down During G20 Summit
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:49 pm
by 8bitboi
been reading a few g20 summit website's and found this
Ahead of G20 summit, council told to switch off illegal £15m CCTV network-The security operation at this week's G20 summit was thrown into chaos last night when it emerged that the entire network of central London's wireless CCTV cameras will have to be turned off because of a legal ruling.
The Department for Transport (DfT) has ruled that Westminster council's mobile road cameras - a third of the authority's CCTV network - "do not fully meet the resolution standards required" and must be switched off by midnight tomorrow.
The blackout begins on the eve of the summit, when world leaders arrive in the capital and protesters take to the streets.
The council only discovered last week that images from its newly installed £15m traffic cameras do not meet the quality required under the Traffic Management Act, which comes into force on 1 April.
full Article here
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/3 ... nsport-g20
this whole thing has got me thinking , WHY turn off all cctv in london ?
so the feds can smash the protesters faces in with batons ?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:56 pm
by magma
This is ridiculously bad timing. Normally I'd be cheering for the demise of CCTV, but even cynical old me smells something a bit rotten in this one.
Re: CCTV to be Shut Down During G20 Summit
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:57 pm
by did
8bitboi wrote:
this whole thing has got me thinking , WHY turn off all cctv in london ?
so the feds can smash the protesters faces in with batons ?
Thank God for camera phones. Seems a bit stupid if you ask me.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:58 pm
by elbe
Strange tho, you would have thought they wanted more coverage not less
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:18 pm
by magma
eLBe wrote:Strange tho, you would have thought they wanted more coverage not less
The Rodney King cops say Hello....
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:31 pm
by elbe
yeah, it only suggest one thing really doesn't it.
Still wish I could make the rallys, gonna be some heavy duty shit going down tomorrow.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:16 pm
by drokkr
people protesting are going to be face some very heavy police now that there will be no cctv...
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:00 pm
by hackman
if the police dont start the fights, i'll be a jellied eel
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 3:31 pm
by funky stanton
it's going to be interesting to see this unfolding in realtime via twitter and geolocated photos.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:13 pm
by ajantis_art
anyone going down? i'm looking forward to it. me and a few mates are guna roll with a shitload of video cameras. i won't be provoking/starting any clashing but i'm sure it'll all kick off. after seeing this
this i'm guna try to get anything and everything on film. this cctv thing is a bit worrying tho
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:23 pm
by alien pimp
when they blew up the subway, didn't it happen that one of the key cctv cameras was "defective" ?
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:18 pm
by misk
ajantis_art wrote:anyone going down? i'm looking forward to it. me and a few mates are guna roll with a shitload of video cameras. i won't be provoking/starting any clashing but i'm sure it'll all kick off. after seeing this
this i'm guna try to get anything and everything on film. this cctv thing is a bit worrying tho
wow. looks like the third reich down there. Good luck man, stay safe.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:18 pm
by frebentos
ajantis_art wrote:anyone going down? i'm looking forward to it. me and a few mates are guna roll with a shitload of video cameras. i won't be provoking/starting any clashing but i'm sure it'll all kick off. after seeing this
this i'm guna try to get anything and everything on film. this cctv thing is a bit worrying tho
aye man il be down covering this for uni.
Should be an intersting day in London.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:45 pm
by alien pimp
frebentos wrote:ajantis_art wrote:anyone going down? i'm looking forward to it. me and a few mates are guna roll with a shitload of video cameras. i won't be provoking/starting any clashing but i'm sure it'll all kick off. after seeing this
this i'm guna try to get anything and everything on film. this cctv thing is a bit worrying tho
aye man il be down covering this for uni.
Should be an intersting day in London.
big ups!
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:47 pm
by cyberneticghost
frebentos wrote:ajantis_art wrote:anyone going down? i'm looking forward to it. me and a few mates are guna roll with a shitload of video cameras. i won't be provoking/starting any clashing but i'm sure it'll all kick off. after seeing this
this i'm guna try to get anything and everything on film. this cctv thing is a bit worrying tho
aye man il be down covering this for uni.
Should be an intersting day in London.
You should definitely post the footage if you can, would be much appreciated.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:53 pm
by frebentos
cyberneticghost wrote:frebentos wrote:ajantis_art wrote:anyone going down? i'm looking forward to it. me and a few mates are guna roll with a shitload of video cameras. i won't be provoking/starting any clashing but i'm sure it'll all kick off. after seeing this
this i'm guna try to get anything and everything on film. this cctv thing is a bit worrying tho
aye man il be down covering this for uni.
Should be an intersting day in London.
You should definitely post the footage if you can, would be much appreciated.
i will man, although i dont have a video camera only a normal camera.
will get any decent flicks up if i can.
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:46 pm
by dynamat
Im meeting alod of mates and just going for the party, dunno though i smell something dodgey, somethings telling me to stay out off the streets
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:41 am
by faust.dtc
Thought id take an early lunch to avoid the protesters as apparently we have been named as a target. Everything seemed quiet until i got closer to my building to find a hundred or so protesters on bikes holding up the traffic, obviously being hardcore 'rebels'. If it wasnt for them blearing out Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking at full blast i might have been unaware and walked into some kind of ambush. Needless to say to took a swift divert to the back entrance and im back in the comfort of Dubstep Forum. Have found out though that if they dont go we might be locked in here until the 'coast is clear'.
It all actually looked quite fun though and despite the kaos it causes part of me wishes i was actually involved. Not for the violence of course but for the bike ride around London, the weed and the 'reggae'...
Thing that really makes me laugh is that office managers tell all the workers to dress inconspicuously, so they still wear shirts, ties and smart black shoes but deside to swap trousers for jeans...like that is some special urban comouflage and wont get you noticed....
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:57 am
by did
FAUST.DTC wrote:
Thing that really makes me laugh is that office managers tell all the workers to dress inconspicuously, so they still wear shirts, ties and smart black shoes but deside to swap trousers for jeans...like that is some special urban comouflage and wont get you noticed....
That's classic. Why is your workplace a target?
Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:01 am
by magma
FAUST.DTC wrote:Thing that really makes me laugh is that office managers tell all the workers to dress inconspicuously, so they still wear shirts, ties and smart black shoes but deside to swap trousers for jeans...like that is some special urban comouflage and wont get you noticed....
Yeah, I'm at work just down from London Bridge and we've been told to dress down. Loads of people are doing the shirt/tie/shoes and jeans combo... it's hilarious! I couldn't be bothered... my casual clothes are too scruffy for a day in the office and, strangely, I like wearing a suit to work - it puts me in the right mood.
I've got to go to a meeting on Bishopsgate at 2, so that should make for a nice walk around as long as things haven't majorly kicked off.