Reply #199: Key word - capacity?

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When I posted this I was a bit dubious about my point, that whoever made the decision in Gold Control might have been watching Menezes on CCTV when making his decision. Dubious enough to be coy about the point, which I shouldn't be, but it's a touchy enough subject.

I was mainly dubious because 600 CCTV cameras isn't many, there are 6000 on the tube network alone, and it seemed unlikely Stockwell would be covered by one of 600, unless they'd set some up specifically for the ongoing surveillance. But thinking on that, 600 is paltry for a city like London. Considering how many areas they might want to have covered, airports, government buildings, major train stations, in the event of a major incident they'd be lucky if one of 600 cameras was in the right place. Chances are, their high-tech centre coordinating an emergency response would be blind, and their banks of monitors wouldn't help much.

The Daily Telegraph link says "Gold Command, which has the capacity to pick up images from 600 CCTV cameras". Is it just me, or does it seem reasonable to think they wouldn't be using a fixed set of 600 CCTV cameras, instead they would have the capacity to get feeds from existing public CCTV networks that cover the city, like for instance London Undergrounds?