Posted on 10/21/2009 5:26:05 PM PDT by WesternCulture
Parking attendants in Malmö are to have miniature video cameras attached to their caps as part of a bid to increase the safety of members of a profession often exposed to threats and harassment.
Starting this Wednesday, a number of meter maids from municipal firm Parkering Malmö will begin wearing the cap-borne cameras, which can register sound and video and are activated when an inspector pushes a button.
The resultant video clips will be saved, and may be used as evidence for incidents that are reported to the police or go to trial. All other clips will be erased.
"By virtue of the fact that we can record occurrences on video, we expect a reduction in the number of incidents in which parking attendants are exposed to verbal abuse and threats of violence," said Leo Strömberg, head of department at Parkering Malmö, in a statement.
Parkering Malmö is the first company of its kind in Sweden to experiment with video technology, a method it claims has worked well in the United Kingdom.
"The number of incidents almost halved when they started wearing cameras," said Parkering Malmö of the UK tests.
The city of Salford in Greater Manchester in north-west England was first to trial traffic warden headcams in the UK.
The country's National Car Parks Services (NCP) said that assaults had dropped 30 percent in the city as a direct result of the mini CCTY cams, which resulted in a first conviction in March last year (see clip).
Uh oh .... stay out of public rest rooms, honey
Lovely Rita is taping YOU.
One can tell when one is in an area of human overcrowding and to what degree by how much one has to pay to park. I eschew paid parking. I’d rather walk.
Malmo-stan? Those meter maids will be wearing burkahs soon.
At least the Swedes do not elect Muslims to run their country.
You just wait. Why would they stop at allowing massive immigration of Muslims? It's only a matter of time before the citizenry elects them.
I have to believe the powers of these pathetic Euro countries that are being flooded with Muslims have been quietly threatened. What sane person would voluntarily sit back and let their homeland be polluted by such a hostile group of people who are the very antithesis of their values?
Muslims are not prone to take over Stockholm.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328696/posts
They better issue them locked chastity belts cause it is a high Muslim area and they love their rape of Western women.
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