British policing has been “shot through” with Chinese-made cameras, drones, and surveillance systems, a watchdog said on Thursday.
Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Fraser Sampson published the final analysis of a survey, showing at least half of the police forces in England and Wales were using camera systems about which there have been security or ethical concerns.
Fraser last year published an initial analysis based on the responses received by then.
Among the 47 forces Sampson’s office (OBSCC) wrote to, including 43 local police forces, the British Transport Police, the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, the Ministry of Defence, and and the National Crime Agency (NCA), 39 completed the survey….