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Letter: Language barrier for talking CCTV
What a great idea - talking CCTV cameras in the city centre!
Between £15,000 to £30,000 to be spent on spy cameras with the added ability to issue verbal rebukes to litter louts and trouble makers.
Sounds wonderful and I hate to be the one to mention the elephant in the room, but have the persons behind this scheme walked around the streets of Peterborough recently?
Have they travelled on a bus recently? Will these cameras be multi lingual or can we add a few thousand pounds to the bill by employing Polish, Rumanian, Lithuanian, Portugeuse, Urdu, Russian, Ukranian etc., speakers as additional camera operators?
I welcome the variety of people I see on the streets of Peterborough, but I wonder how many of them have the language skills to realise they have just been told off by a talking camera for spitting or dropping litter?
Still I’m sure this was well covered in the “brain storming session” carried out before the decision to introduce this scheme was agreed.
J. Martin
Peterborough
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AliV
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 12:06 PMTo be fair if someone drops some litter and a nearby camera pole starts frantically barking orders at them in a foreign language then it will have the same effect no matter what language you speak.
rebel woman
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 09:49 AMMaybe they could have high powered lasers on tops of buildings and just zap the offender on the spot. Language barrier sorted
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