Active (radar) millimeter wave imaging systems are able to "see through" most wall materials, providing the technology of choice for developing situation assessment systems. Such systems extend the ability of users to view activities from one or two rooms away, or from the outside of a building into its interior. Using this technology, hostage, terrorism, demolition, and other unlawful and dangerous situations can be assessed remotely and evaluated for action. - source

Private firms to police terror orders

Private security staff are to be used to monitor the controversial new anti-terrorist control orders in an attempt to save money, according to preparations being made to implement the policy by the Home Office.

Senior civil servants have been asked to assess the likely impact of the control orders which are being rushed through parliament. Their report discloses that private security staff are to monitor the day-to-day surveillance of the terror suspects through electronic tagging.

The Home Office says the control orders will be cheaper than the £40,000 annual cost of holding a terror suspect in a high-security prison such as Belmarsh. But to save further money "where possible the monitoring of the orders will be contracted out to private companies as per existing arrangements with companies like Securicor and Group 4"

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The Home Office report estimates it will cost between £100,000 and £250,000 a year to keep 20 terror suspects under surveillance for a year, including the cost of tracking their bank accounts.

But it makes no assessment of the costs of imposing a full "house arrest" on a terror suspect, perhaps reflecting Mr Clarke's determination to keep such powers in reserve.

Securicor and Group 4 are already contracted by the government to run the electronic tagging systems monitoring the movements of sex offenders and criminals released on licence from prison. - Guardian

Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex- Class warfare from above

Flashback: Police chief wants Star Trek phasers
[to switch off suspects brains - I kid you not]

Feb 14 2004 By Amardeep Bassey

Star Trek-style phaser guns should be issued to police officers so they can "temporarily switch people's brains off," according to a top Midland cop.

Ian Arundale, Assistant Chief Constable of West Mercia Police, said the futuristic non-lethal firearm would make it easier for bobbies to safely apprehend dangerous criminals. But he conceded that such sci-fi weaponry, as used by Captain Kirk and Mr Spock, would not be available "in my lifetime."

"What we would like in the future is a Star Trek-style phaser that, perfectly safely, temporarily switches someone's brain off so that officers can move in," he said. "We know we are not going to get that, probably not in my lifetime anyway, but we will look at anything that takes us in that direction."

Mr Arundale, who also heads the firearms unit of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), was slammed by civil liberties groups who said the gadgets could kill people with weak hearts.

"The danger is that officers will adopt a 'fire first and question later' policy," said a spokesman for Liberty. "It is a little premature to be talking about weapons which we don't understand and which don't, in fact, yet exist.

"Mr Arundale might as well have called for officers to be issued with Star Wars light sabres and Superman X-ray glasses." - icbirmingham

Immigration: Electronic Monitoring

statement in Parliament reveals immigrants now being mandatory tagged - 8th Nov 2005

The Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Nationality (Mr. Tony McNulty): Section 36 of the Immigration and Asylum (treatment of claimants etc) Act 2004 allows for the electronic monitoring of those liable to be detained under the Immigration Acts. This includes asylum seekers, illegal entrants, those found working in breach of their conditions of stay, overstayers, people subject to further examination at a port of entry, and those refused leave to enter.

Electronic monitoring takes three forms: telephone reporting using voice recognition techniques, tagging and tracking. These are being used, in combination with face to face contact at immigration reporting centres, to improved compliance with the requirements we place on people to remain in contact with us. Contact Management, including electronic monitoring is a key aspect of the New Asylum Model as described in the five year plan.

During the passage of the 2004 Act, the then Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Beverley Hughes, stated that an electronic monitoring requirement would be imposed only with the consent of the individual. This commitment was re-iterated when her successor Des Browne wrote to the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Consent is not a statutory requirement but was introduced as a matter of policy in recognition of the novel use of electronic monitoring in the immigration context.

The electronic monitoring pilots have generally been a success, but asking for the subject's consent is inconsistent with any other area of contact management. It hampered our ability to manage contact with people flexibly because the need for consent left us with very little recourse if the individual failed to give it or where, having initially agreed to be monitored electronically, they subsequently failed to comply. That is why I agreed a change in the policy before the summer recess to allow the Immigration Service to draw up contact management plans without first seeking the consent of the individual. The consideration of whether the individual will comply with specific requirements will be part of the process of deciding how best to manage contact and this change places us in a stronger position by enabling us to consider what action to take where someone fails to comply with an electronic monitoring requirements.

The impact on compliance in the short period since the change in policy has been positive. Between July and September of 53 people who failed initially to comply with telephone reporting, 47 began to do so after one written warning that their continued failure may lead to their re-detention. Since the start of the pilot in October 2004, we have tagged 49 people, 23 of them since the policy on consent was changed, but we have seen no adverse impact on the level of compliance notwithstanding that we have tagged a larger proportion of high risk cases without seeking their consent.

This is a promising start, but we shall continue to monitor the situation as electronic is applied in increasing numbers. I will update the House on the progress we are making in a further statement early in the New Year. - parliament.uk

"Satellite road pricing will be hugely expensive to install, and it`s effect on peoples behaviour have not been properly thought through," said ABD spokesman Nigel Humphries. "It won`t work - it will be a huge white elephant, and hiding within it is a dark trojan horse for civil liberties, as it means that drivers will be tagged and tracked like criminals. It will just be a giant version of the London Congestion charge - hugely unpopular and full of perceived unfairness and aggravation for drivers." Darling's Satellite Road Pricing Scheme is a White Elephant, a Trojan Horse and a Red Herring, say Britain's Drivers.

Britain tracking more motorists

My note: try: ALL OF THEM

Video monitoring on highways raises worries over privacy

By Mary Jordan - The Washington Post - Published January 11, 2006

My note: wow! just check out this first line: "world leader" how proud does/should that make you?

LONDON -- Britain, already the world's leader in video surveillance of its people, will soon be able to automatically track the movements of millions of cars on most of its major roads. Law-enforcement agencies are dramatically increasing the number of cameras that read license plates and are building a national database that designers say will make it possible to determine in seconds whether a car zooming by has insurance, was stolen or was seen near a crime scene.

"It will revolutionize policing," said John Dean, the national coordinator of the Automatic Number Plate Recognition system. "Our aim is to deny criminals the use of the roads."

My note: wow! just who will fit your criteria of a criminal? - anyone who doesn't have an ID Card? Can't pay to access digital TV? Protests the Iraq war? wears an anti Blair T-shirt? What?

The technology is already being used on the M25, which rings London and is the country's busiest road. The system, scheduled to begin operating nationally by June, will employ thousands of cameras on fixed poles or in mobile police vans on major highways, key back roads and vital intersections throughout England and Wales. Dean said the idea is to make it difficult, if not impossible, to travel by road without being captured by the cameras.

My note: Majority have accepted it already = People who oppose are a 'Minority'

In recent years, the British public has accepted a generally high level of surveillance in public places to counter terrorism and common crime. Thousands of closed-circuit cameras were installed on city streets during the Irish Republican Army's bombing campaigns.

My note: human-rights groups pro IRA?

Some human-rights groups are fighting the new project, calling it a dangerous step toward a Big Brother society. "We believe it is a gross invasion of privacy," said Douglas Jewell, campaigns coordinator for Liberty, a human-rights organization. "We don't have a problem with surveillance cameras when they are used appropriately. But the idea of establishing a massive national database that will record ordinary people's journeys and whereabouts is troubling."

My Note: Police stress 'computers' 'databases' 'textbook' trying to assert the system is failsafe

Each of the system's cameras, backed up by computers that read numbers from their images, can monitor 3,600 license plates per hour, Dean said. That information is immediately cross-referenced with a police database of plates registered to people suspected of breaking the law.

Cameras in action

Police Inspector Paul Moor said that a "textbook" example of how the system works occurred Nov. 24, when police were parked on the shoulder of the A13 highway 20 miles east of London. Their van had a camera to scan passing license plates and computer equipment to check for numbers linked to criminal suspects.

My Note: look !!!! CCTV stops druggies!

Moor said that two seconds after a 1998 Volvo station wagon passed, the computer's alert system announced: "Attention: no insurance." Having no insurance is a crime in England, and Moor, who was in the van, radioed to officers down the road. When they tried to pull over the Volvo, Moor said, it sped away. The officers pursued it. Ultimately, Moor said, six police cars converged on the Volvo, and officers found a bag containing $180,000 worth of heroin.

My Note: look !!!! CCTV stops pedo's too

In another case, Dean said, witnesses noted the plate number of a car they saw leaving the scene of a child's abduction. The next day, an ANPR camera detected the car. When police stopped it, they found the missing child in the trunk. "It's tremendous; it is one of the best tools we have had in years," Moor said.

My Note: So Human rights are for pro drug pedo's, right?!

But Jewell, the human-rights activist, said the system will enable police to "build profiles of people" and their movements even though they have committed no crime. He said few people are happy about "being tracked all day."

My Note: it's a $1 billion-a-year business, oppose this you could be stopping people getting a job...that means feeding their children, you terrorist child abuser, you!

People in Britain are already monitored by more than 4 million closed-circuit, or CCTV, cameras, making it the most watched nation in the world, according to Liberty. The group said that a typical London resident is monitored 300 times a day. Cameras keep an eye out throughout the London subway and bus system, on streets, in stores and around public buildings. The closed-circuit camera industry has quadrupled in a decade and is now a $1 billion-a-year business, according to the British Security Industry Association, a trade group.

My Note: oh yeah LONDON BOMBS!
- if you oppose this you are on side with the terr'ists - that'll scare 'em woooo! innocent people were killed because YOU didn't have or want cameras

Photos of bombers

The extent of London's CCTV network became well known after bombs exploded in three subway cars and a bus last July. Fifty-two passengers were killed in addition to four bombers, and more than 700 people were injured; a similar attempt two weeks later failed when the attackers' bombs failed to detonate. Almost immediately, police were able to release still photos of men suspected of carrying out the bombings. CCTV had captured them in the subway system and on the bus.

hang on a minute...er no... actually! on 7th July the CCTV camera system mysteriously weren't working on the bus...and there was only 2 pictures released asserting these were the bombers Left: 2 shots of Hasib Hussein at Luton - is this Same Guy? this is the freely available MET photo source: http://www.met.police.uk/news/terrorist_attacks/groupcctv.jpg later CCTV photos were released of a so-called dry run...and of the second fake bombers from the 21st July

U.K. rail to install body scanners

LONDON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- British railway stations will soon install airport-style security checks using body scanners and X-ray machines for increased security.

Following the July 7 London bombings that caused 52 deaths, new rail security will also allow passengers to be frisked and random bag searches made, on the orders by Alistair Darling, the Transport Secretary, the Sunday Telegraph reported.

The security changes will be tried in selected locations on the network and if successful, the government plans to implement the measures at railway stations across Britain and at the subway stations and at other transport interchanges- science daily