Self-check questions and answers
1. What does the acronym HOLMES stand for?
Answer:
Home Office Large Major Enquiry System: used to cross-reference and retrieve data collated in crime investigations
2. What percentage of the world’s CCTV cameras are estimated to be deployed in Britain?
3. In relation to what three types of crime did police officers suggest CCTV was particularly effective?
Answer:
public order offences, assault, and theft
4. Against what sources of information do Thames Valley police check information gathered via ANPR?
Answer:
Police National Computer (PNC), Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Local Force Intelligence systems and motor insurers databases
5. What percentage of the British population support, in general terms, the use of cameras to police speeding drivers?
Answer:
Compstat is a police management tool that coordinates ‘up-to-date computerized crime data, crime analysis, and advanced crime mapping as the bases for regularized, interactive crime strategy meetings which hold managers accountable for specific crime strategies and solutions in their areas’ (Silverman, 2006: 268)
7. In Britain in the 1960s Computer-Aided Dispatch systems were introduced in the development of what model of policing?
Answer:
Unit Beat Policing
8. Who developed a model prison that enshrined the concept of the panopticon?
9. To what broader social and political processes do Hudson (2003) and Loader (1999) relate the development of technology in policing?
10. In which specific environment have CCTV cameras been introduced to monitor officer behaviour?
