From: "Tumbleweed" 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Chip&Sig refusal: Nationwide
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 22:24:36 -0000


"Nebulous"  wrote in message 
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> "Tim"  wrote in message
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> snip
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>>  Further, full investigation would likely show a
>> CCTV somewhere showing the actual perpetrator of the fraud, and hence 
>> show
>> that the bank is wrong.
>>
>
> Have you ever tried to access CCTV material?
>
> We had some fairly major damage (around £2000 to repair)  done to a 4 
> month
> old car, while it was parked with a CCTV pointing directly at it. The 
> system
> cost millions and is run from a police control room. We had a two hour
> timeframe and even suspected it might have been a lorry that was parked
> nearby when we left the car.
>
> We could not get anywhere at all. The police could not afford the time to
> examine the tapes. We were told we were lucky it was insured and would 
> only
> cost us £150.
>
> I think your chances of them searching several cameras in the immediate 
> area
> would be precisely nil, unless it was a major assault or a murder. As for
> shops- by the time you got your credit card bill in they would have
> overwritten their tapes.
>
> Neb
>

Similar experience, car was broken into, CCTV showed the breakin. However, 
the camera was of such poor quality, and the tapes had been reused so much, 
that they were useless for ID ing anyone or even givinga clue as to who it 
was(In this case the police did look at it)
-- 
Tumbleweed

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