Surveillance Cameras In 20,000 British Homes

Cameras will monitor parents who are battling addiction and neglecting their children.

Phone wiretapping, mail interception and surveillance cameras in every shopping mall and in every street is clearly out of vogue. Britons have decided to take it to the next level and set up cameras in 20,000 homes in the next two years, the Daily Express writes.

Why shouldn`t an intelligence agent know that a carefree pupil is not doing his homework or that a lazy housewife is ordering take out instead of cooking lunch for her family? Ed Balls, national Minister for Children has this idea, which will set back the budget 668 million dollars.

Cameras will be switched on 24 hours a day and 20,000 families will be under the watchful eye of agents who work for the so-called Family Intervention Projects. These families are suspected of neglecting their obligations towards children or have addiction problems.

Apart from the cameras, specially trained agents will riot the homes, checking whether everything is fine.

The British government hopes that the new project will cut back the number of young offenders, addicts and alcoholics, thus reducing the country`s crime rate.

However, Chris Grayling, Shadow Home Minister, believes it is too late for such a project.

- It`s too little, too late – Grayling concluded.