It would be interesting to know whether the actions reported in today's Telegraph apply to our own Tonbridge and Malling Borough Council. Are we being spied on?? According to the report legislation aimed at preventing terrorism is being used by councils like TMBC to catch out people who allow their dogs to foul public footpaths, fly tippers and families suspected of the heinous crime of falsifying their schools application forms. Some might say these "crimes" if that's what they are, need stamping out, but really isn't this heavy handed use of KGB-style surveillance equipment going just a little too far. Is it another step towards our country becoming a police state? Modern technology allows councils to take this kind of action at relatively little cost; parking attendants already routinely use cameras to justify their extorting ever more fines on motorists, but surely our own council would not stoop so low, surely TMBC keep the right side of the fine line between catching wrong dooers and becoming the Stasi-like wrong doers themselves. Don't they?...
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