CCTV, the most recent must-have for the home
The BBC are running the following piece on their news site…”Wander into your local branch of Woolworths, B&Q, Argos or Homebase and you will see boxes of CCTV systems stacked alongside much more conventional homewares. prices start at under £30 for a basic black-and-white device. Clearly, you no longer have to be a celebrity, millionaire industrialist or politician to have cameras trained on your doorstep.
‘Probably 90% of our sales are to the domestic market,” says James Rankin, a director of IView Cameras Ltd, in London. “The people we sell them to are people that have had their automobiles scratched, or elderly people who are concerned about strangers at the door, or people with nuisance neighbours’.
IView’s many popular systems sell for about £230 and that’s self-installed. It also provides a national installation service, for a price. Sales have been stable for the past three years, Mr Rankin says, but the company has seen growing demand because last summer.
“The type of person we get varies from someone who lives in a council estate to someone who has a mansion in the country,” Mr Rankin says. “The need for CCTV doesn’t depend on how much money you have. It depends on your need for security, and your level of fear.”
It’s that enhancing worry of crime – blamed, by some, on a combination of sensationalist press coverage and ever-more reasonable films and TV dramas – that drives the need for security, says Mike Presdee, a criminologist at the university of Kent in Canterbury.”
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