...amongst other things
www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/23/cctv-sky-police-...s
Not exactly sure how this would work, but you soon might need to check the skies before you decide to cut somebody up...if you're into that kind of thing...
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This is a step too far. The increase in state intrusion outweighs the benefit. What's the road tax on a mobile SAM launcher?
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I guess it is a little more difficult to stack tyres on and set alight to
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Are drones the same as airships then? (see BBC pic). That'll make life interesting. Don't think I'll be flying back to the UK in future.
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it's a load of 'blah'....all police areas are due to have the screws turned big time and will have to have enormous cost savings....no one will be able to afford this...
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Huge RIPA implications as well.
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Im sure they would make nice targets with a proper airgun and a sight
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I was only just thinking something similar about the temptation if one strayed too close to a clay shoot....
Bloke in a microlight flew over ours one Sunday morning. Never seen anyone lose their tan that quick. No one shot at him of course but he just appeared over a ridge and flew low over all these blokes with shotguns. Must've looked a bit scary from up there.
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>if one strayed too close to a clay shoot.... Bloke in a microlight flew over ours one Sunday morning.
Charles Church used to fly his Spitfire over one of our shoots (it's at the end of Popham airfield). Everyone used to stop to just listen and watch.
Kevin...
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You'd have to have a very powerful air gun to get to 20,000'.
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it's a load of 'blah'....all police areas are due to have the screws turned big time and will have to have enormous cost savings....no one will be able to afford this...
They are cheaper to operate than helicopters . . . . . .
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That they are being considered, and road monitoring is mentioned (amongst the other things) is quite bad enough, thank you.
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This topic came up in another post on here recently but seemingly passed everyone by. Anyhow, I wouldn't hold my breath about these. Yes, RIPA will be an issue with a directed surveillance but in all other respects no different to CCTV today. And there lies the rub - someone has to view and interpret the images. Unless this is being done at the time (which requires staff and further available staff to respond) then there will be no quick response to an incident taking place. If instances of crime are not responded to at the time then the remaining problems of identifying people or owners of vehicles remain. (still stuck with our useless vehicle registration system). I can't see a quick fix to existing problems and I don't think these hold any fear for the motorist. Chances of being in the right place at the right time are slim. I can only really see a use for directed surveillance and I would suggest that of all the authorities operating under the requirements of RIPA the Police are probably most compliant with it's content, and therefore these remain no threat to the car user.
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The tone of the article suggested directed surveillance - I agree thought that the Police are the best agency for complying with RIPA
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Anybody seen this? Kent and Essex police are said to be planning to use pilotless spy planes to keep track of anti-social motorists, flytippers, protesters and agricultural thieves.
tinyurl.com/yddgn8k
What think? Gimmick, scare story?
Threads merged
Edited by Pugugly on 27/01/2010 at 21:52
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Oddly phrased in the Torygraph story as "at a distance of 20,000 feet". I took that to mean height, but maybe not.
The more surprising bit to me is that they are said to be "fully autonomous".
Edited by Manatee on 27/01/2010 at 21:35
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I think they will soon be banned when they keep falling out of the sky :) I have no problem with these as longs as they don't abuse them. I can see them being used for fining people for going through amber, accidently going in the wrong lane and that sort of thing.
They need to be used to catch crinimals not motorists making minor mistakes.
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Not to poop the party but think there's another thread on this a bit further down.
As a thought though, if one wanted to get a job flying one of these do you think a beard would be compulsory ? Would an anorak have to be procured ? Last but not least, would there be a company tartan flask do you think ?
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We'll probably all end up with identification numbers on the roof of our cars, like the police have.
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I want one of these, whatever the cost.
The first use I will put it to is to fly it over to my local supermarket, to see how busy it is, rather than drive down on the off chance and find myself jostling with the unwashed masses in the aisles and then again in the car park.
Then I will use it to do my own recce of the traffic on my route (including taking it with me in the boot, to use when stuck in traffic jams).
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I'd fly it over the local woods to see who makes a trolling type racket there.
Personally at this time it may be pie in the sky (sorry) my local Force is looking at shedding jobs to the tune of 15m quid over the next five years - potentially they could replace helicopters I suppose.
Edited by Pugugly on 13/02/2010 at 14:14
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"no one will be able to afford this."
Trust me westpig (and I agree the country is on it's knees financially - even worse than Greece etc) - but this will be self financing - the technology is becoming cheaper thanks to the military and there will be a target for each uav to convict motorists - so it will pay for itself.
This is the UK remember, the country with more cctv than any other in the world. We have laws that allow the council to spy on you as though you were a terrorist. You are applying common sense to an almost orwellian government.
Also I know it works because I was fined for speeding on an empty road in Canada - caught by a plane not a uav though.
Edited by OmNo on 13/02/2010 at 13:25
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Just come across this thread but, remarkably, bell boy has beaten me to posting a link to the story, which has been on our local website for a couple of days:
www.southportforums.com/forums/showthread.php?thre...3
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...would there be a company tartan flask do you think ?...
If there was, it would have to be Black Watch.
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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8517726.stm
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