Friday, April 20, 2007

Government Blimps Track Citizens

Airships to tackle Caracas crime
By James Ingham
BBC News, Caracas

Caracas has the world's worst figures for gun crime death Officials in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, are taking to the air in an attempt to make the city safer.

The council has bought three mini remote-controlled airships which are soon to be launched to look down on the city monitoring criminal activity.

Each has a camera mounted on it, which beams back pictures to a control room.

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