Last month, the people of England were subjected to some of the worst cases of rioting and looting in living memory. Gangs of people could be seen blatantly antagonising the authorities before turning on local shops and businesses and helping themselves to the goods inside. Buses, cars, shops and even people’s homes were set alight as the riots quickly spread across the country.
Many local shopkeepers would return the following morning to find the shutters ripped from their hinges, which had protected their premises, and their stock strewn over the road or simply ‘gone’. With the police being criticised for adopting a ‘stand back’ approach, businesses were left unprotected for these gangs of looters to ‘take’ what they wanted.
As organised ‘gangs of looters’ targeted and trashed shop after shop they must have thought they were unstoppable as the looting and violence spread – gone went the hoodies, the neckerchiefs and the fear of being caught.
However, some shopkeepers had installed CCTV systems which were left continuously running capturing all the ‘action’ as it happened. In many cases the images obtained from these cameras have been used to identify the criminals resulting in them being prosecuted by the courts. Police have stated they still have an astonishing 20,000 hours of CCTV footage to sift through and bring even more looters to justice.
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