UK Watchdog: Policing ‘Shot Through’ With Chinese Surveillance Cameras

Hikvision surveillance cameras outside the Hikvision headquarters in Hangzhou, in east China's Zhejiang province, on May 22, 2019. STR/AFP via Getty Images

British policing has been “shot through” with Chinese-made cameras, drones, and surveillance systems, a watchdog said on Thursday.

Biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Fraser Sampson published the final analysis of a survey, showing at least half of the police forces in England and Wales were using camera systems about which there have been security or ethical concerns.