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Spying on Vehicles: Secret Cameras Hidden in Vehicles to Catch Benefit Cheats
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The article discusses a plan to deploy camera surveillance in vehicles to catch benefit cheats in the act of defrauding the system, using video footage to prove their crimes and obtain court evidence. This is part of a larger live surveillance strategy by the Department for Work and Pensions aimed at saving billions from the benefits bill through fraud prevention.

Spy cameras hidden in vehicles are to be rolled out later this year in a bid to catch benefit cheats in the act of defrauding the system.

Video surveillance cameras will be concealed both inside and outside vehicles to secretly film fraudsters and obtain damning footage which can later be used as evidence in court to prove they have been on the fiddle. The strategy is expected to become operational in September 2026 with vehicles equipped with the high-tech cameras which can capture images after dark and will be deployed outside homes and places of work following tip-offs and intelligence.

It is part of the Department for Work and Pensions 'live surveillance strategy' and is reminiscent of the TV detector vans which roamed Britain's neighbourhoods using electronic equipment to locate homes watching TV without a licence.

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