Not everyone is happy about the proliferation of CCTV in the United Kingdom.  A police officer in the video claims, “I’m very confident that we’re using it properly and responsibly, and that innocent people have nothing to fear from the way we use it.”

John Catt found himself on the wrong side of the ANPR system. He regularly attends anti-war demonstrations outside a factory in Brighton, his home town.

It was at one of these protests that Sussex police put a “marker” on his car. That meant he was added to a “hotlist”.

This is a system meant for criminals but John Catt has not been convicted of anything and on a trip to London, the pensioner found himself pulled over by an anti-terror unit.

“I was threatened under the Terrorist Act. I had to answer every question they put to me, and if there were any questions I would refuse to answer, I would be arrested. I thought to myself, what kind of world are we living in?”

Naturally, the police won’t talk about the case.  They claim they have nothing to hide, but the system has already proved to be abused so that the police can watch people who are simply protesting and doing nothing wrong.