Attitude toward CCTVs in Shopping Streets

Questionnaires to Shopkeepers and Customers

Abstract

Now public security in Japan is getting worse, increasing number of commercial unions provide kinds of methods to restore control of shopping streets. Especially many of them have set CCTVs in shopping streets to prevent and detect crime. This paper studies the attitude toward CCTVs in shopping streets through questionnaires to shopkeepers and customers. Though many unions have make rules that anyone must not monitor pictures and recorded pictures must not be watched unless authorities demand them not to invade anyone's privacy, about the half of customers don't think such rules are needed for their security. Commercial unions should clarify the purposes and the operating ways of CCTVs and compare cost and benefit in advance, and the administration should make guidelines that commercial unions can consult before promoting CCTVs.