The streets of London just got safer. A team of eight Police officers of the Metropolitan Police, North London, will be equipped with head-mounted video cameras to help in the fight against anti-social behavior. They will on the look out to capture precious evidence against youths causing trouble. These tiny cameras (the size of an AA battery) will be fitted onto the side of the officers’ headgear. Watch your back mister, cause these cameras record high quality digital images, which are then fed back and stored in a special utility belt. With recording capacity of twelve hours (the maximum length of any police officer’s shift) each pack costs £1,800.

The lucky Bobbies to try it out first (this week) are from a Safer Neighborhoods team based in Haringey, north London. The Haringey Council’s Safer Communities Partnership is funding this project, in their bid to keep the streets clean, and make a crack down on the anti-social elements. The video clarity is said to be good enough to produce as evidence to support a prosecution, in the Court of Law.
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