Paphos Life

Happy in Cyprus wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2017 6:47 pm Agree 100% Bograt. One of my many reasons for leaving the UK was the surveillance society that it had become.

I realise that surveillance camersas can help solve crimes and nail suspects, but it's amazing how Cyprus and the USA (to give but two examples) manage perfectly well without wall-to-wall cameras.

ApusApus wrote: ↑Tue Aug 08, 2017 7:38 pm Do I hate big brother tactics, probably .............. until I need them to aid my case! Have you seen the recent video of a woman pushed in front of a bus by a jogger?


Shane

ApusApus wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:43 pm Not really! The report on the Beeb website says that "CCTV of the incident was issued earlier in the week in an effort to trace the jogger after police attempts to establish his identity had failed" so I think it's safe to assume that a member of the public recognised the jogger from the footage & reported him.

And as I inferred before, I would love a society where we don't need CCTV surveillance ............. unfortunately, we don't live in one yet!


Shane

Hudswell wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 3:33 pm Oh Lloyd...calm down for goodness sake..have you been to Napa recently? Google stabbing in Ayia Napa...of course Cyprus is a safe place to live and holiday...but I am sorry things are changing and sometimes for the worse...but thankfully still fairly rare...Bar street in Paphos...been there recently? .I personally have no fear in regard to the prolification of CCTV, and if it helps the over streached police to catch felons then yes....Paphos old town renovation, vandals ripping up newly planted trees? Fire bombing of premises...of cars and other premises/property..sometimes Captured on CCTV...it's a Deterrant...you are in favour of progress, new builds, new marinas, improvements..well I am afraid all that progress comes at a price...you really think we are immune to the crimes being committed in regard to fake accidents? Fake Collisions ? And since Cyprus joined the EU, can you really say crime has not increased, you have security systems on your property, even bars on you Windows? Possible cctv, perhaps not your villa but I bet it is deployed in Secret Valley...why? Because Cyprus is not the idyllic island it was once perceived to be...pretending it does not exist and it is not getting worse is stupidity...the authorities know this and are reacting....good on them.

Happy in Cyprus wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 3:00 pm

Hudswell wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 1:09 pmCCTV is a fact of life as are traffic cameras...and whilst it is a shame to have them....they are needed and do assist the police in many circumstances...

Please illustrate where CCTV is needed in Cyprus. Are there trouble hot-spots you know of, that I don't? Rowdiness at night as people are turfed out of pubs and clubs? How often do you hear of muggings here, or knife-related crime? Thankfully Cyprus is still a very safe, family-orientated environment...and agression and serious crime are incredibly rare. Long may it stay that way. And no thank you, we don't need CCTV here - dashcams or not.

ApusApus wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 8:43 pm Not really! The report on the Beeb website says that "CCTV of the incident was issued earlier in the week in an effort to trace the jogger after police attempts to establish his identity had failed" so I think it's safe to assume that a member of the public recognised the jogger from the footage & reported him.

And as I inferred before, I would love a society where we don't need CCTV surveillance ............. unfortunately, we don't live in one yet!


Shane