Another unmanned CCTV control room

News from Carlisle via the News and Star:

Staffing problems have led to the CCTV control room that watches for crime and violence in Carlisle being left empty during a string of night shifts.

Difficulties at the city council mean six shifts where workers would have looked out for trouble in the city – as well as Longtown and Brampton – have not been covered.

As we've seen so often before (indeed, we've got a whole category devoted to it) - law enforcement throws funds at this technology which then can't be spent elsewhere, policing becomes dependent on that technology, and it promptly fails.

By Alex Deane

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If these things were actually useful to cops, you can be sure they'd be staffed.

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Lag doesn't exactly matter for buffered streaming media. Once the bits are flowing, the fact that they're delayed by half a second or so won't make any difference as long as there's enough bandwidth to keep the buffer ahead of playback.

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Christophe Decarnin's replacement has not been announced although it will likely be someone from the current design team.