More than 200 cameras targeted at Muslim suburbs of Birmingham as part of a secret counter-terrorism initiative are to be dismantled, it emerged today.
‘Muslim suburbs’..?
The West Midlands police chief constable, Chris Sims, said he believed all cameras installed as part of the £3m surveillance initiative should be taken down to rebuild trust with local Muslims.
What happened to ‘nothing to hide, nothing to fear’?
In a statement, Sims said: "I believe that the support and the confidence of local communities in West Midlands police is the most important thing for us in the fight against crime and terrorism.
"We can fight crime and the threat posed by terrorism far more effectively by working hand in hand with local people, rather than alienating them through a technological solution which does not have broad community support."
And when did the police last worry about whether a solution (technological or not) have ‘broad community support’?
Today, a Birmingham council scrutiny committee released its own report, finding senior police officers guilty of "deliberately misleading" councillors over the purpose of the scheme.
Ah, of course. It couldn’t be that councillors sat back and let it happen, right?
There have been no resignations or disciplinary action…
Shocker…
No action is known to have been taken against the assistant chief constable Anil Patani, who had overall responsibility for the project.
I’d guess Patani is bullet-proof. Wouldn’t you?
Yeah it's fine to blanket us whites with CCTV cameras, but when it comes to mozzies they want broad community support?
ReplyDeleteIt's bollocks.
I guarantee that not one terrorist has ever come from a Muslim community.
ReplyDeleteJust because they don't speak much English, prefer to dress in tribal costume, keep their women several paces behind (and bagged, if possible) and mostly hate the country they live in does not mean they are our enemies.
Point the cameras at the real problems: the rest of us. Until we learn to submit we need to be kept in check.
Birmingham Councillors have understandable concerns over the concept of close scrutiny.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to see how many different pens were used to fill in their postal votes, for example.
Gentlemen and Britons, surely it is time we ripped all of the cameras wherever they are down to help our police force attain this admirable new stance of theirs, NO MORE CCTV ANYWHERE!!!!
ReplyDeleteSo the Green Lane mosque and its mob of ranting, death to the west nutjobs has suddenly become a centre for peace and enlightenment has it?
ReplyDeleteThe West Mids police must have camel shit for brains...
It all seems well balanced.
ReplyDeleteThe police have no more idea of what daft things they will do next than we have any idea what daft things they will do next.
In totally unrelated news...
ReplyDelete"It's bollocks."
ReplyDeleteIt's almost as if they don't care how it sounds or looks to the majority population, isn't it?
"It would be interesting to see how many different pens were used to fill in their postal votes, for example."
No need to look as far as Birmingham to see where that leads - Tower Hamlets is providing a stunning example!
"The West Mids police must have camel shit for brains..."
They do have form in this area, after all. Channel 4 documentaries spring to mind...
"In totally unrelated news..."
Indeed...