Police chiefs: Give us CCTV clues to criminals' behaviour

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Using high-tech facial-recognition technology, they want to identify suspects and even examine their behaviour as they look for tell-tale signs of someone planning a crime.

Sophisticated computer systems linked to the Police National Computer can now compare images taken by the cameras with thousands of mugshots and identify a suspect in seconds.

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Big Brother: Police chiefs are asking for full access to Britain's CCTV cameras so that they can analyse movements that could help identify criminals

From next year, all forces will have access to pictures of everyone arrested for a criminal offence in the UK, with photos loaded on a new Facial Images Database.

It already holds 750,000 digital images of suspects. They say this should link directly to the CCTV network.

Under proposals to the Home Office, the CCTV footage would be available in police control rooms.

Police also want to use the system automatically to search for offenders and identify people behaving suspiciously using special computer programs.

They say it could even identity terrorists.

Home Office Security Minister Tony McNulty dismissed people's fears about privacy, saying: "They are fundamentally wrong."