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Victoria Police want access to your homes CCTV · The Slippery Slope

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  OK, I'm going to tell you what my opinion is now before I even
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  get into the story. So if you don't want to listen
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  right to the very end to see what actually need what actually
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  think about it, I'll tell you now this is a bad idea.
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  I do not, would not encourage anyone to participate in this.
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  Not, not at all. And it's not that, it's not that
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  there's not good people within the Victorian Police.
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  I just don't believe in any of these institutions being given
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  this kind of power and having access to this kind of
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  information, this personal information which we're going to
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  get into in this story. That's my opinion.
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  So if you don't want to see what I'm talking about, check it out.
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  Anyway, this story here, Victoria pushes, pushes bold.
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  They describe bold policing reform.
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  Remote CCTV access plan could save 200 million a year.
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  My personal motto, when a government body comes out and
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  says, hey, this is for your piece, for your safety, for you
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  to save money. Nah.
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  A groundbreaking new proposal is being advanced in Victoria that
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  could allow police to remotely access home.
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  Home. Yeah, your home.
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  Home and business security camera footage, a move expected
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  to save more than a million policing hours and up to 200
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  million annually. The initiative, led by former
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  Victoria Police detective Dave Bartlett, is dubbed the Safer
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  Places Network and would enable police to access CCTV footage
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  electronically with owner permission, eliminating the need
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  for door knocking and on site video transfers.
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  It's not about surveillance, it's about efficiency, Bartlett
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  said. Liar, liar, pants on fire
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  Bartlett. He's added that senior officers
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  across several crime units have endorsed the proposal.
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  Well, crikey, if senior officers, we all know.
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  We all know how trustworthy senior officers are.
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  If they've endorsed it, well, what's the problem?
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  Under the system, when a crime occurs, police could request
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  access to listed camera systems and download relevant footage
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  instantly once the owner approves access remotely.
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  Yes, once you approve it remotely and then the police
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  have access to your system regardless, anytime really, once
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  they've got your details, once your details are out there.
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  Currently, detectives face delays as they try to locate
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  homeowners or store managers, many of whom struggle to operate
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  their own system. The time consuming process of
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  transferring video files onto USB or disks, then taking them
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  back to the station can hinder real time investigations.
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  Bartlett, who served in the force of 15 years, said this is
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  the CERT program could revolutionize how investigate
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  are conducted, particularly for serious crimes like assault,
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  shootings and home invasions. If I had this tool when I was on
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  the job, it would have made a huge difference.
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  He said the cost and labor savings are significant, with
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  more than 1000 current police vacancies and around 700 staff
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  on sick leave. Yeah, there is 1000, more than
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  1000 current police vacancies, but that's the flipping
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  government's fault. That's the government's fault
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  that caused the silly problem. And as they always do, they
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  cause the problem. Then they turn and say, hey, we
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  can fix. We can fix part of it.
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  Let us do this. No thanks.
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  The ability to redeploy saved hours to frontline duties could
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  transform the forces capabilities.
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  Importantly, strict privacy safeguards would be in place.
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  Oh, strict. It's strict privacy safeguards.
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  And of course, there's no way to get around strict privacy
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  safeguards, is there? No, officers would not, would
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  not have blanket access to live or archive footage.
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  Yeah, well, they're not. They're not not publicly given
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  blanket access, but you know, they've got access if they want
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  to, if they deem it necessary. There's always the, there's
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  always well in, in the public interest.
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  We can do this. Well, it's for the public
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  safety. Well, it's for the greater good.
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  We had to access this even though we didn't have permission
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  for that specific time. But it's for the greater good.
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  That's, that's the con. It's for the public safety.
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  It's for your safety. OK.
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  So they would not have blanket access to live or archive
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  footage, and all access would require user consent.
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  Once you've given up that consent, yeah.
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  The proposal is currently under review by Victoria Police, as
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  Bartlett says seeks to initiate a pilot program.
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  Like I said, once you've given permission, OK, and, and then
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  they'll come up, you know, a couple of years time, we'll be
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  sitting here and it'll be like, oh, look, Victoria Police are,
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  are accessing this footage with their permission.
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  I mean, homeowners don't realise that they're actually accessing
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  footage. And then the Victoria Police is
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  going, well, oh, actually we weren't doing that.
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  I, I was doing that. We just didn't realise that
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  they're doing it behind the back end or, oh, well, it's just a
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  rogue. It's just a couple of rogue
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  officers who are doing this. You know, we had no idea.
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  The organization had no idea. It's just a rogue element.
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  Anyway. If successful, the Safer Places
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  Network could represent the next frontier of smart policing in
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  Australia. I'll give you the drum.
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  Like I said, the smart, the real smart thing to do would be not
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  to give the police permission to access your at home CCTV at all.
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  I'll just be doing a blanket. No way, Jose, you know, maybe
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  businesses, Yep, fine. And I wouldn't doubt that
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  probably insurance companies will jump on board and probably
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  strong arm businesses, small businesses into giving police
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  access. But it was for my home security
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  system. There is not a chance, not a
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  chance I would give police. And it's not because I don't, I
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  don't think, you know, there's plenty of individual police out
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  there who are trust worthy, but the organization themselves
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  cannot be trusted. They've proven in the past again
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  and again and again that they cannot be trusted with
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  information. They cannot be trusted with
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  password, with being given access to these things because
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  they constantly let down the public.
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  They constantly. And then there's no, it's, it's
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  the, it's the, it's always that attitude of, you know, big
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  forgiveness rather than ask permission.
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  Oh, you got caught. Oh, we're sorry always for your
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  safety, always for the greater good.
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  It was for your safety, your concern.
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  It's going to save you money. We did the wrong thing.
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  But you know, we had good intentions, good intentions.
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  It's always good intentions. These organizations, police, a
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  police organization cannot be trusted with your personal
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  information. They cannot be trusted with
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  doing the right thing. There's always going to be a
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  slip up. There will be some elements,
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  someone out there that justifies accessing these information when
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  it's not needed. There will be someone else out
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  there justifying it because they need to.
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  You know how many police officers get in trouble for
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  hunting down the ex partners, chasing in the ex partners, all
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  this kind of thing. Spying on people they shouldn't
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  be looking at happens way too often.
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  This is a bad idea. And when people start
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  trumpeting, oh, it's for your safety, It's for your safety,
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  It's for the public good. You know very well the opposite
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  is going to happen. Hey, that's just all my opinion.
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  Let me know what you think. I think this is wrong.
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  Just in case you missed that, I'm Jay Fallon.
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  This is all my opinion.