I hope the majority of people who will be watching this program next Monday, be they from Wigan or elsewhere in the country, don't get the impression that all the people in Wigan are like this. I used to enjoy going for a night out around town but have seen it getting worse over the years, so much so that I avoid the town centre completely at weekends. It comes as no surprise to me that cctv has become the primary weapon in crime fighting, you know the cameras are there but don't know what they're pointing at. A great author who came to this town many years ago and wrote a book called The Long Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell, also wrote a book called 1984. It was written in 1948 and foretold of an opressive state where all were monitored by government agencies. Looks like we've taken ourselves into that era without realisng it, albeit 24 years later. CCTV is a good thing in the right place for the right reasons, as long as it's not used to follow people in breach of thier human rights. I hope the people who were caught doing things they weren't supposed to be doing see themselves on telly and realise how it looks to the outside world. Just remember, in the UK, we've got more cctv cameras than anywhere else in the world. You never know who's watching or where they are!

Wigan is a self full filling prophecy.

Perhaps if we had a real police presence in the streets like we used to have then people wouldnt feel so free to break the law, Wigan has more CCTV per sq klm than any where else in the world, and yet they catch a fight (could happen anywhere) some idiot robs a paper van police catch him, Not the mjor crimes of the century are they! drug dealing taking place in the parish church yard show me a town that doesnt have the same problem. So just exactly how much has been spent on taking the real policeman off the street and replacing him with the spy cameras, BUT WAIT!!! Wigan metros EX cabinet member for community protection is straight on his soap box telling us how good these cameras are perhaps he is justifying the money already spent or perhaps he is worried Wiganers in their down to earth manner may see through all the New Labour media hype and start getting worried about just how much their everyday lives are being spied upon, David Davies WHERE
ARE YOU!!!!!!!!!