1984: FRANCE TOWN INSTALLS CCTV CAMERAS THAT CAN SHOUT ORDERS AT YOU

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telegraph.co.uk

French town installs 'talking CCTV cameras' to scare off litterbugs

By David Chazan in Paris

28 Mar 2016

One of the wealthiest towns on the Riviera with a crime rate close to zero has become France’s first municipality to install ‘talking’ CCTV cameras that tell off people for parking badly or dropping litter.

The home of nobility and millionaires, Mandelieu-la-Napoule is best known for mimosa trees, topless sunbathers and A-list pool parties at secluded villas. Now the community of 22,000 people is under fire from civil liberties campaigners over the introduction of cameras equipped with loudspeakers. The system allows people spotted failing to pick up dog turds or engaging in anti-social behaviour to be reprimanded or ordered to stop by control centre staff.

For years, the French have resisted the widespread use of CCTV as an unwarranted intrusion into their privacy. Objections have diminished since the Paris attacks in November and three-quarters of medium-sized towns now have CCTV. However, many see the addition of speakers as a step too far.

According to Jean-Marie Montali of Le Parisien newspaper, it is “Big Brother in Mandelieu”. He suggested that the town had more urgent things to spend its money on than “a voice from the heavens to warn you not to step out of line”.

But the deputy mayor, Sébastien Leroy, claimed that ‘talking’ CCTV would save the local council money. “A single ‘motocrotte’ vehicle to vacuum up dog faeces costs €130,00 (£102,000) a year,” he said, adding that the speaker system was a highly effective deterrent. “It is like smacking a child’s bottom. When one person is told off, there are usually several dozen others nearby who hear the message. It has a snowball effect.”

Laurent Mucchielli, a crime researcher at the University of AIx-Marseille, said ‘talking’ CCTV is impractical. “The number of officers monitoring the cameras is likely to be quite limited at any given time. It’s very difficult to observe what’s happening on so many screens at the same time.”

Coralie, a young mother who heard a voice from above bellowing at her not to park at a bus stop, said: “I would much rather have been told by a human officer.”

Maïwenn Lesage, 22, said: “It’s horrible. The government and the politicians find plenty of excuses, like terrorism, to control us. Our liberties are becoming more and more reduced.”

Anne-Marie Costilhes, 50, also objected to ‘talking’ CCTV. “You don’t have to look around you, someone does it for you. I think we need a different society where we talk to each other.”

Two other French towns are introducing the system and 20 areas in Britain have ‘talking’ CCTV. Unlike their French counterparts, however, the British cameras also have microphones so the offenders can talk back to the control centre, should they wish to explain themselves.

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1984 Orwellian Police State 'Talking CCTV Cameras: Rolled Out In France

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ALERTE ROUGE: La France entre en Dictature - Caméra parlante : NWO (2016)

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deaf guy walking dog leaves poodle-doo in gutter......huh ?...
tells magistrate.....nobody said nothing about it to me....

I wonder what the job interview for that position would be like.

"Okay, sit here in this room and watch this monitor, when you see me do something wrong, yell at me, order me to do something...my pants are off because the room is hot, not because I'm naughty. Depending on how well you do we'll invite you back for a second interview and see how you handle the spanking camera."

Ah, stories about the affluent french....

Just some rich people, who talk funny, on the other side of the big blue ball, abusing power. Nothing we need to concern ourselves with.

be Fun flinging Dog-Poo at those infernal Things!

I am sure that have designer disposal gloves on the Riviera & illegal aliens to handle that.
So they can sit back & watch the CCTV monitors & laugh.

Imagine,the Niceties in French going for and back between the Shoutee and the Shouter!