TfL's bus shelter CCTV trial to be expanded across London
The cameras, which are integrated into the shelters themselves, retain recordings for 31 days to support police investigations.
Claire Mann, chief operating officer for TfL, said four of the 20 bus shelters already analysed showed the trial had had "a very, very positive impact".She said: "We're going to analyse the remaining 16 shelters and it's quite clear that rolling out CCTV at bus shelters is definitely the way forward."We need to obviously ensure we have the funding to do so but it sounds like we're going to be rolling that out further now."
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That strain of moron was never going to be able to handle Emily Maitlis's 2019 grilling on Newsnight. In fact, characteristically, he thought afterwards it had all gone very well. And so, as the book says, Andrew was a pathetic mouse to Jeffrey Epstein's rattlesnake when the two fatally flawed sex-obsessives first crossed paths. All the good fairies were at baby Andrew's side at his 1960 birth – but so too were the devil triplets: stupidity, entitlement and indulgence by neglect.
