{"id":67812,"date":"2023-10-05T01:11:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T01:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/?p=67812"},"modified":"2023-10-05T01:11:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T01:11:48","slug":"jenni-murray-my-friends-burglary-has-made-me-a-cctv-convert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rapidcelnews.com\/lifestyle\/jenni-murray-my-friends-burglary-has-made-me-a-cctv-convert\/","title":{"rendered":"JENNI MURRAY:\u00a0My friend&apos;s burglary has made me a CCTV convert"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>JENNI MURRAY:\u00a0My friend&#8217;s terrifying burglary has made me a CCTV convert<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chris Philp, the crime and policing minister, proposed a new plan for catching\u00a0<\/strong><span>thieves<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0\u00a0As a lifelong nicotine addict, I&#8217;m enraged to see influential celebrities like Kate Moss, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Stella McCartney puffing away<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019ve never been one to welcome the fact that there are now cameras everywhere. I\u2019ve hated being spied upon when I\u2019m driving the car, going round the shops, even walking down the street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s either a big camera recording me on CCTV or a little camera peering at me from a neighbour\u2019s doorbell.<\/p>\n<p>Big Brother, I used to cry. Is there no privacy? Can I not get away with even a slight mistake like turning left up a road I\u2019ve travelled a million times only to find the rule has changed? Today it\u2019s a no left turn. Caught, fined, infuriating.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll be surprised, then, to learn that I\u2019m delighted at the announcement made this week by Chris Philp, the crime\u00a0and policing minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the\u00a0Tory\u00a0conference, he said widening the use of the available technology would be a \u2018game changer\u2019 for catching thieves.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/23\/76179813-12594141-image-a-16_1696456980037.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jenni reports that everyday the Nextdoor neighbourhood app in her part of North London has new messages from people whose cars, bikes or phones have been stolen (Stock Image)<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to use CCTV, dashcam and doorbell images and, using the passport system, identify the shoplifters, burglars and thieves who\u2019ve been making all our lives a misery.<\/p>\n<p>Philp intends to allow police forces to search not only their own national database which holds information on people who\u2019ve been arrested, but to connect to the passport database which has all of us who\u2019ve ever travelled.<\/p>\n<p>The immigration and asylum biometrics system would also search foreign nationals who are not on the passport database.<\/p>\n<p>Crime and the fear of crime have risen to a terrifying extent such as I\u2019ve never experienced in my long life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Every day the Nextdoor neighbourhood app in my part of North\u00a0London has anguished cries from people whose cars, bikes or phones have been stolen, costing them hours of grief in dealing with the police and insurance companies.<\/p>\n<p>Every day people are asking: \u2018What can we do to stop this?\u2019 I sense the possibility of vigilante groups forming and that can only lead to violence on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s when such incidents come close to home that you begin to revise your rather liberal view on the right to privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Early last week I had a 6am call from a good friend who lives nearby. She was shaking with fury and fear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At 2am, she had woken her husband saying she could hear someone in the house. He seemed to be outside their bedroom door. They heard him walk down the stairs and out to meet up with the other four guys circling around their Land Rover.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly the intent was to steal the car, but the tech which enables thieves to get into a keyless system was of no use. The car had a proper old-fashioned key, well hidden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/23\/76179815-12594141-image-a-17_1696456995314.jpg\" height=\"793\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jenni is behind the government&#8217;s plan to\u00a0use CCTV, dashcam and doorbell images and, using the passport system, identify the shoplifters, burglars and thieves who are causing misery<\/p>\n<p>The thief who broke in had searched every drawer in the house looking for it. No luck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He stole a wallet left on the kitchen table and a knife from the kitchen. Lucky my friend\u2019s husband had been persuaded not to tackle the intruder. The knife might well have been used.<\/p>\n<p>The police were called. Two officers turned up long after the robbers were gone. Not much the police could do, they said, apart from give a crime number for the insurance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crime investigation team came later. No evidence available. Obviously, the thief was wearing gloves. No interest was shown in the video evidence.<\/p>\n<p>One neighbour has a full CCTV system which showed clear pictures of three of the gang members. The two other burglars were a little less clear from doorbell cameras but still appeared identifiable. Under the proposed system they surely could have been found. Case closed.<\/p>\n<p>A week later my friend and her husband were in the sitting room watching TV. It was just getting dark and there were no lights in the front of the house. They weren\u2019t worried. The front door had been fixed and had a strong new lock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They heard the smashing of glass. The gang was back. When they realised the house was not empty and police were being called, they scarpered, fast.<\/p>\n<p>The police turned up, ummed and ahhed, offered a crime number and left. Again, no chance of an arrest, no questions about video evidence. Again the CCTV showed two of their faces perfectly clearly.<\/p>\n<p>The gang of thieves have no fear of being caught; while my friends are full of fear.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The home in which they had been cosy and safe for years had been violated by ruthless young men no doubt paid to pick up valuable motor cars and ship them abroad.<\/p>\n<p>My friends are far from the only ones to suffer. There seem to be several gangs of fearless thieves around my part of North London and I doubt any part of the capital or other cities are much better.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Philp plan can\u2019t come soon enough, but it will no doubt take time. The databases need to be connected. A time span of two years is predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Please, crack on with it now so that it\u2019s too late to stop should an election cause a change of government less keen on a \u2018face and trace\u2019 tactic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re all sick of living in a 21st-century criminal equivalent of Sodom and Gomorrah. Please, make us safe again.<\/p>\n<p><span>At last, a man talking about miscarriage<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/22\/76179823-12594141-image-a-10_1696456216980.jpg\" height=\"1194\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Former England rugby international Mike Tindall has spoken out about how his wife Zara struggled after her miscarriage\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How unusual, but how encouraging, to hear a man talking about his wife\u2019s suffering after a miscarriage.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview in The Times, Mike Tindall explained how hard it had been for Zara and what a \u2018terrible journey it is for mothers as they look at themselves like it\u2019s their fault\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>As a former England rugby international, he\u2019s a big man and even bigger for revealing the pain of his private life.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky to get a great seat for the first night of the Royal Ballet\u2019s Don Quixote at the Royal Opera House. A wonderful evening, but a shock on seeing those great red velvet curtains were a year out of date.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018ER\u2019 said the giant gold lettering \u2014 twice. Come on, I thought. Get the best needleworkers out and make it \u2018CR\u2019. Royal all round but let\u2019s mark the right monarch!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/22\/76179821-12594141-image-a-14_1696456251848.jpg\" height=\"313\" width=\"306\"><\/p>\n<p>Dame Sue Carr chose to be Lady Chief Justice<\/p>\n<p><span>Hurrah for \u2018Lady\u2019 Chief Justice<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dame Sue Carr, elevated to one of the highest legal positions in the land, could have chosen to be Lord Chief Justice or just Chief Justice, but no.<\/p>\n<p>As the first woman to be appointed to the post, she\u2019s chosen to be Lady Chief Justice.<\/p>\n<p>How reassuring that a woman with such power in the law knows sex matters.<\/p>\n<p><span>Get those mobiles out of schools!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/04\/22\/76179817-12594141-image-a-15_1696456344567.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Education Secretary Gillian Keegan has announced a mobile phone ban in all English schools\u00a0(Stock Image)<\/p>\n<p>Well done Education Secretary Gillian Keegan for announcing a mobile phone ban in English schools.<\/p>\n<p>No better way to get children away from often damaging social media sites and introducing them to books.<\/p>\n<p>No Wi-Fi required, no pinging notifications, no porn. Instead, material that\u2019s actually worth reading.<\/p>\n<p>Driving back from Bournemouth last week I stopped at Fleet services on the M3 where I discovered EV charging rage is very real. There was a group of four or five blokes having a right barney with another whose car was plugged in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness I was just there for a quick fill-up with old-fashioned petrol.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12594141\/JENNI-MURRAY-friends-terrifying-burglary-CCTV-convert.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JENNI MURRAY:\u00a0My friend&#8217;s terrifying burglary has made me a CCTV convert Chris Philp, the crime and policing minister, proposed a new plan for catching\u00a0thieves READ MORE:\u00a0\u00a0As a lifelong nicotine addict, I&#8217;m enraged to see influential celebrities like Kate Moss, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Stella McCartney puffing away I\u2019ve never been one to welcome the fact that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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