> 4 million surveillance cameras, number plate recognition systems
> in police cars and on the roadside, and 1000s of speed cameras

Don't worry, with the UK Government doing a crash course on slimming
down the budget my local county council has refused to fund all fixed
and mobile speed cameras in Oxfordshire. I suspect many other councils
will be doing the same. 

Swindon has refused to fund their cameras for a number of months now, as
they were putting money in, but getting nothing back. They couldn't see
why they couldn't have some return from the resulting fines.

But the NPR cameras do have their uses. There is currently a new program
on one of the channels about motorcycle emergency services, and one
caught the other night was a vehicle that was logged by an NPR unit as
having no vehicle insurance. The motorcycle officer stopped the vehicle,
and in talking to the driver found he was driving unlicensed, at least
what had happened was the driver had had a conviction for which he had
12 months loss of licence. After the 12 months he proceeded to drive
again - but apparently the catch is you have lost your licence until you
resit it, which he hadn't done. The car was impounded and crushed, he
got a whopper fine and was not a happy bunny.
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