| You arrive home. You open your mailbox, reach | | | | Microdrone! Measuring just two feet from |
| inside and remove a mishmash of envelopes, | | | | rotor blade to rotor blade, this |
| fliers and periodicals. After turning the key | | | | remote-controlled helicopter contains a |
| to your front door, you walk inside your | | | | hidden spy camera. How does it work? Along |
| house, sifting through the mail as you do so. | | | | with two landing skis and the rotors, four |
| There is a letter from your aunt Gertrude in | | | | short, thick arms carry a hidden spy camera. |
| Saskatchewan. There is a newsletter from your | | | | After flying above crime scenes, the |
| Book-of-the-Month Club. There is also an ad | | | | Microdrone transmits its recordings to |
| for a hybrid espresso machine-vacuum cleaner | | | | bobbies, or police officers, on land. Some |
| appliance. Suddenly, one of the envelopes - | | | | citizens are already uneasy about the |
| from the local county council - catches your | | | | prevalence of hidden spy cameras in the U.K. |
| eye. Using a letter opener, you slice open | | | | However, local U.K police authorities argue |
| the envelope and remove the paper contained | | | | that the public generally supports the |
| inside. You read it, and then gasp in | | | | cameras, as these provide them a "feeling of |
| amazement. You are to pay a fine of $2,000 | | | | safety." They hope that the new machine will |
| U.S. dollars! Your crime: putting out your | | | | complement their CCTV patrol vans and manned |
| garbage bin at the wrong time. Does this | | | | helicopters. Be Like Bobby According to a |
| sound impossible? Not at all. Today, a local | | | | 1998-2000 United Nations study, the U.K. |
| government in England is using a special | | | | ranked sixth in the world in terms of least |
| hidden spy camera to catch offenders of the | | | | crimes per 1,000 people. Such outstanding |
| new garbage collection rule. Seeing-eye Bags | | | | results show that using hidden spy cameras in |
| An interesting development in the realm of | | | | your own home could help in your personal |
| hidden spy cameras has sprung up in the U.K. | | | | mission of crime prevention. The first step |
| In one county, local councils are using the | | | | in preventing a burglary in your home is to |
| cameras to control when and where people put | | | | secure all entry points with locks, and |
| their garbage outside, for collection. One | | | | preferably, deadbolts. Entry points to |
| county has purchased a hidden spy camera | | | | consider include the: * front door * garage |
| costing thousands of U.S. dollars. This | | | | door * gate * guest house door * patio door * |
| hidden spy camera can be placed in a garbage | | | | rear door * service door * sliding glass door |
| bag sitting in an alley. The camera will then | | | | * swimming pool gate While the costs alone |
| spot homeowners who put out their garbage too | | | | would make it difficult to place a hidden spy |
| late or too early. It will also catch | | | | camera at every entry point, it would |
| residents who place their garbage in a nearby | | | | certainly be wise to place one at the front |
| alley, instead of alongside the street in | | | | and back doors. In countries such as the U.K, |
| front of their homes. The main concern is | | | | the hidden spy camera has changed the way law |
| that uncollected garbage will attract all | | | | enforcement is done. Though your occupation |
| kinds of annoying bugs. Local officials also | | | | might not put you on "the beat," using such |
| hope that the hidden spy cameras will not | | | | cameras can help to keep dodgy blokes off the |
| only catch "envirocrime" culprits, but also | | | | streets and behind bars! |
| drug dealers, graffiti artists, and illegal | | | | |
| garbage dumpers--referred to as fly-tippers. | | | | Yes, you need home surveillance like you need |
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