What are these cameras for?

Malikz

Heya, just came down to Newham London and seen these cameras,  they are all along the street, does anyone no what they are used for?
I accidently turned onto a no entry road, which I noticed too late, so my fault entirely. Not sure if these cameras are used to detect it or are they for normal surveillance.
Does anyone know what each cameras role is? I have attached pictures of them. 

Malikz

Here are the pictures. 

Robin9

Typical CCTV street cameras for the local council

Were_Doomed

As above. Whilst in theory they could use them to record your transgression, in reality the chances of this happening are slim to none.

Welcome to George Orwell's 1984.  

Apodemus

Were_Doomed said:

Welcome to George Orwell's 1984.  

Except in George Orwell's world the cameras would have been manned. In all probability nobody will be looking at these except when there has been a major incident and they need information.

DUTR

Were_Doomed said:

As above. Whilst in theory they could use them to record your transgression, in reality the chances of this happening are slim to none.

Welcome to George Orwell's 1984.  

I beg to differ, a road I have travelled often has since been declared a bus lane, the short distance I travelled , I received a letter from the council.

Scrapit

Is it Redbridge or Newham that had the first facial recognition tech?

[Deleted User]

DUTR said:

Were_Doomed said:

As above. Whilst in theory they could use them to record your transgression, in reality the chances of this happening are slim to none.

Welcome to George Orwell's 1984.  

I beg to differ, a road I have travelled often has since been declared a bus lane, the short distance I travelled , I received a letter from the council.

And that was because of those specific CCTV only cameras that don't have ANPR etc?

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Deleted_User said:

DUTR said:

Were_Doomed said:

As above. Whilst in theory they could use them to record your transgression, in reality the chances of this happening are slim to none.

Welcome to George Orwell's 1984.  

I beg to differ, a road I have travelled often has since been declared a bus lane, the short distance I travelled , I received a letter from the council.

And that was because of those specific CCTV only cameras that don't have ANPR etc?

Quite possibly.

If it is a well sited bus lane, it is financially (£60 a pop and the council keep the money) worth either monitoring it live, or reviewing the recordings from peak periods. It wasn't rocket science to use movement in a specific zone to trigger a recording or a time marker 20 years ago.