ABSTRACT
When the installation of cell cameras was first discussed within the Metropolitan Police a briefing paper suggested that ‘the involvement of external academic evaluation is seen as essential to this project in order to gain a wider perspective of the benefits and outcomes from the equipment used and to provide impartial evidence of the impact from within the local community’. 1 The research reported here raised sociological questions and issues about how we use and how we think and talk about the use of CCTV.
