New research has revealed Hackney and Islington as two of the most monitored places in the UK.
Get Licensed, A UK security staffing platform, analysed a series of Freedom of Information requests from 2020/21 to reveal where in the UK has the most CCTV cameras and which areas spend the most on surveillance.
While Glasgow City had the most CCTV cameras, Hackney had the fifth most with 2,044 and Islington the seventh, with 1,605.
Hackney and Islington also made it in the top ten places with the most CCTV cameras per person.
Hackney took seventh place with around 72 cameras per person, and Islington came in ninth with 64.7.
However, neither borough made it in the top 25 places spending the most on CCTV. The City of London topped that list, spending £7.05million on cameras.
Not all councils responded to Get Licensed requests and some were unable to provide information for various reasons.
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