When CCTV is used, drivers only find out they have been caught when a fixed penalty ticket drops through their letter box some time later, making it harder to challenge the fine.More than 300 councils in England have the power to keep income raised from fines and charges. But the law says they can only do so to ease congestion and control traffic.

There are 70 times more privately owned surveillance cameras in the UK than government ones, a new study has revealed. The research found that Britain has a total of 5.9 million cameras and called for better regulation of privately owned devices.

Some 70,000 cameras run by the British police and authorities make “perhaps only 1.2 to 1.7 per cent” of the overall number of CCTV cameras in the UK, the study reads. The research was conducted for the British Security Industry Association (BSIA), according to the Evening Standard.

According to the research, cameras that are in public control include more than 10,000 CCTV units(sony FCB-EX1020P ,sony FCB-EX11DP ) installed by the police and some 60,000 more controlled by local authorities across Britain.

The London Tube network alone has 13,000 cameras, with an average of 52 cameras per station. The study estimates that between 290,000 and 370,000 cameras are run by state schools.

But the majority of surveillance cameras in Britain are privately owned. The study claims that some 2.7 million CCTV sony FCB-EX980P cameras are owned by private businesses and individuals.

But the overall number of cameras is likely to stir the heated debate surrounding the UK’s so-called “surveillance society,” just one year after the Protection of Freedoms Act was imposed and days after the introduction of a surveillance code of practice for public CCTV systems. Both legislations include the regulation of state cameras.

There are currently no rules governing the use of private CCTV sony camera the highest zoom cameras. However, surveillance camera commissioner Andrew Rennison recently hinted that the government may have to address the growing trend of homeowners setting up CCTV systems on their properties. Private surveillance cameras can cause “upset” to neighbors, Rennison told The Daily Telegraph.