12 minutes ago, norman said:

Cctv is useless 90% of the time ime. 

 

Agreed, also not helped by the fact much of that 90% is poorly installed or not FFP.

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10 hours ago, norman said:

Cctv is useless 90% of the time ime. 

I must have been lucky with mine then, three times Ive caught people who have "accidentally" damaged my car but not said anything. I caught the kids that tried to break into my shop, and I identified the kids that went around my village stealing from cars, because they came onto my driveway. The only thing I can say is in all those occasions the people committing the crimes had not planned the crime to begin with. I would say its lower than 90% overall but yes CCTV is quite easy to overcome if planned. 

Oh and those cheap safes are worth leaving around in plain sight with nothing in, twice now I have heard of customers who have had break ins and all they took was the safe that was empty. It would seem that once the burglar has found what he thinks is your valuables he gets out.

3 hours ago, PeterJames said:

I must have been lucky

three times Ive caught people who have "accidentally" damaged my car but not said anything.

I caught the kids that tried to break into my shop

I identified the kids that went around my village stealing from cars, because they came onto my driveway.

 

48 minutes ago, norman said:

 

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I think the salient point is that we assume the systems were decent i.e high resolution, and properly installed!

Also in the village situation it's more likely you'll recognise people, I suppose. Depends how isolated you are.

 

This is probably the biggest difference between PJ CCTV and DIY CCTV...

47 minutes ago, datadiffusion said:

I think the salient point is that we assume the systems were decent i.e high resolution, and properly installed!

Also in the village situation it's more likely you'll recognise people, I suppose. Depends how isolated you are.

 

This is probably the biggest difference between PJ CCTV and DIY CCTV...

I didnt know him but the Police did. That time I had Mega-Pixel cams all the other times they were analogue, but the cameras were positioned correctly. Aimed at getting faces and not tops of heads like many systems I have seen. I forgot to add the cameras on the shop also got two really good images of a couple of burglars that broke into a house up the end of the road. In fact we captured the whole thing only the house was too far away to get the number plates of the car. 

Yup, as well as poor resolution, the 'tops of heads' mounting position must be the number one DIY pitfall.

That and the fact they don't see through hoodies...

37 minutes ago, norman said:

That and the fact they don't see through hoodies...

 

Bit of a moot point though when you usually wouldn't be able to use the images for ID even if they weren't wearing them!