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Council Spends £24,000 On Spy Plane With Heat Sensitive Cameras To Spot Illegal Immigrants
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the shanty town which has sprung up on the site of the former Hendon FC ground in North-West London.
No one should have to live in this kind of insanitary squalor. But camps like these are going to become increasingly commonplace as Britain opens the doors to 26?million from Romania and Bulgaria next January.
If they’re lucky, they manage to scramble up the housing ladder and settle down in a garden shed somewhere.
All sorts of outbuildings are being turned into illegal dwellings. In Slough, Berkshire, the council has spent £24,000 hiring a spy plane equipped with thermal-imaging cameras to track down hundreds, possibly thousands, of immigrants who are believed to be sleeping in garages and converted coal bunkers.
In just two hours, homing in on body heat, the drones identified 210 suspicious ‘sheds with beds’. None of these places have planning permission or comply with fire regulations.
‘We will be able to cross-check and see whether they have valid Energy Performance Certificates, which are required by law for places where people live.
‘If they don’t, we will be speaking to landlords and offering some advice and guidance, and enforcing the law if we need to.
‘One option is to repeatedly fine a landlord for not having an EPC. The fine is £200 a day, making it very expensive for people to continue using the outbuilding.’
Call me simplistic, but how about not letting them in in the first place, problem solved.
Are we now supposed to accept spy drones over our houses, in our skies?
How long before the police start using them? How long before they get fitted with tazers? How long before they are common place? How long before skynet decides we are not worth keeping around?
Another thin edge of a very big wedge.
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the shanty town which has sprung up on the site of the former Hendon FC ground in North-West London.
No one should have to live in this kind of insanitary squalor. But camps like these are going to become increasingly commonplace as Britain opens the doors to 26?million from Romania and Bulgaria next January.
If they’re lucky, they manage to scramble up the housing ladder and settle down in a garden shed somewhere.
All sorts of outbuildings are being turned into illegal dwellings. In Slough, Berkshire, the council has spent £24,000 hiring a spy plane equipped with thermal-imaging cameras to track down hundreds, possibly thousands, of immigrants who are believed to be sleeping in garages and converted coal bunkers.
In just two hours, homing in on body heat, the drones identified 210 suspicious ‘sheds with beds’. None of these places have planning permission or comply with fire regulations.
‘We will be able to cross-check and see whether they have valid Energy Performance Certificates, which are required by law for places where people live.
‘If they don’t, we will be speaking to landlords and offering some advice and guidance, and enforcing the law if we need to.
‘One option is to repeatedly fine a landlord for not having an EPC. The fine is £200 a day, making it very expensive for people to continue using the outbuilding.’
Call me simplistic, but how about not letting them in in the first place, problem solved.
Are we now supposed to accept spy drones over our houses, in our skies?
How long before the police start using them? How long before they get fitted with tazers? How long before they are common place? How long before skynet decides we are not worth keeping around?
Another thin edge of a very big wedge.