Security Cameras for use outside government special facilities was developed as a means of increasing security in banks. Today it has developed to the point where it is simple and inexpensive enough to be used in home Security Cameras systems, and for surveillance. Surveillance of public areas in the United Kingdom by Security Cameras was developed partly in response to IRA bombings.
Experiments in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s (including outdoor Security Cameras in Bournemouth in 1985), led to several larger trial programs in the early 1990s. These were deemed successful in the government report "Security Cameras: Looking Out For You", issued by the Home Office in 1994, and paved the way for a massive increase in the number of Security Cameras systems installed. Today, systems cover most town and city centres, and many stations, car-parks and estates.
The exact number of Security Cameras cameras in the UK is not known but a 2002 working paper by Michael McCahill and Clive Norris of UrbanEye[1], based on a small sample in Putney High Street, estimated the number of surveillance cameras in private premises in London is around 400,000 and the total number of cameras in the UK is around 4,000,000. The UK has one camera for every 14 people.
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