West Mids Police - CCTV released of looters raiding Birmingham Emporio Armani store

FOOTAGE of looters raiding a shop in Birmingham's Mailbox is the latest video to be released by officers investigating the recent disorder.

The CCTV, taken from Emporio Armani, shows a large group of masked and unmasked offenders entering the store at around 10:15pm on Monday 8 August.
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Smart CCTV

Smart CCTV

UK researchers are currently developing a high-tech CCTV system that can track specific types of criminal behaviour. For instance the system is being honed to detect when someone pulls a gun in a crowd, it will be able to track the movements of people over several different cameras.  

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Birmingham Riots CCTV

Birmingham Riots CCTV.

Birmingham police have released another set of CCTV images to the public, in the hopes that someone will be able to identify rioters. 


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GMP - Diesel CCTV - Manchester City Centre

Greater Manchester Police have released CCTV images of people suspected of carrying out criminal damage and disorder in Manchester and Salford on 9/10/8/11.
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Crimestoppers - new stills from riots

Over 100 new stills have been released to try and identify those involved in the recent riots.
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Met Pol- Officers mown down by escaping looters

CCTV footage showing the attempted murder of two police officers as they chased looters during last week's disorder has been released by detectives in the hope it will encourage people to come forward and identify those responsible.

The officers were mown down by a green Citroen driven directly towards them at high speed in Royston Avenue, E4, whilst they were dealing with reports of a group looting the 'Aristocrats' clothing store on Chingford Mount Road, E4, amid the violence and disorder seen in the area last week
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West Mids Police - CCTV clues to city centre robbery

POLICE in Birmingham have released CCTV footage of  men wanted in connection with a city centre robbery.

In the early hours of Sunday 17 July, a 20-year-old man was walking alone through Fletchers Walk near Broad Street when he was tripped up and set upon by a group of men.

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Footage released after shots fired at police in Birmingham disorder

West Midlands Police need help to identify persons using firearms.
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Police release new images of people following disorder in Leicester

Police have today (Monday August 22, 2011) issued a further six images of people they wish to speak to in connection with incidents of disorder in Leicester city centre last week.


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Leicestershire Police issue CCTV images following disorder

Images from CCTV systems have been released of persons that the police would like to identify

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Avon & Somerset Police release CCTV images

Murder of Rico Gordon
Can YOU help?
Police investigating the murder of Rico Gordon in Bristol on Sunday July 3, 2011 have released new CCTV images of people who may be able to help with the investigation.

The images below show people in the Stapleton Road area at around the time the 21-year-old was killed. Police believe these individuals are potential witnesses and are urging them to make contact as they may have vital information, even if they believe it to be insignificant.

Contact the Operation Baron incident room now

Above are just two of the images of the people the police want to speak with
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Met releases CCTV images of disorder suspects

Suspect images issued re disorder
Operation Withern is investigating the serious disorder and violence that has been affecting parts of London. Today (Tuesday 9 August) they are releasing the first of many images of suspects.
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Birmingham Disorder - Operation View

West Midlands Police have released stills from CCTV of the disorder last night in the city centre in an attempt to get the public to help identify the individuals involved. See more pictures here

NEWSLETTER - Time and the Need for Speed

From our recent newsletter.......

So your case may have video evidence...
Time and the Need for Speed

You must make every effort to identify this material quickly as it is only likely to be available for a very short period from the date of the recording, this may be as little as the following few hours  or as long as possibly a month, before it is recorded over.

You will need to contact the controller of the CCTV system immediately by telephone or go to the location to arrange for the material to be secured before being overwritten and lost forever. Some makes of Digital Video Recorder (DVR) have the ability to securely archive parts of the recording but many don’t or the members of staff do not know how to carry out that function. Some systems are still using video tapes and these will be reused at some point and the images recorded over.

So if you had to go and seize CCTV material right now would you know what to do?

Many organisations have a policy on how to seize CCTV material, have you read it? Like all other forms of evidence if this material is seized incorrectly it may diminish its worth to the investigation and possibly its evidential merit and in the worst case be inadmissible.

There are a couple of Home Office publications with some very useful advice ‘First Responders Protocol’ and  ‘Retrieval of Video Evidence and Production of Working Copies from Digital CCTV Systems v2.0’ Publication No. 66/08. (Following a recent revamp of the HOSDB site these are now hidden in an archive but click on the titles to view them.)

I would recommend that every person that may be asked to obtain video evidence carries a copy of the "First Responders Protocol" or similar as it is a great aide memoir, although you may want to add some notes from my articles.

I would suggest that many of the existing policies and publications do not include all of the information that you should obtain to help you or your colleagues in making the best use of the material in a subsequent investigation. I would also like to expand on the various points in the two publications and add a few that will ensure that the material can be used more effectively. Please always refer to your organisations policy on seizing video evidence, if it has one.

Over the next few issues of DemuxDispatches I will be exploring one or two of these points plus some of my own to help you maximise any useful material to assist your case if you would like to receive a copy of the newsletter please complete the form on the right at the top of this page.

Read my article “Time and the Need for Speed” here

If you have any comments on this post, the article or on seizing video evidence in general please contact me or make a comment below, thanks.

Devon & Cornwall Police - CCTV re arson in Sutton Harbour - Plymouth

Following a fire that caused £34,000 worth of damage to two boats the police have released CCTV footage of the man they wish to speak to in connection with this incident.


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