The quality of images produced by surveillance cameras all over the country is ‘toe-curlingly bad’, according to police chiefs in Thursday’s AD.



The pictures are often so fuzzy that criminals can barely be recognised and have little use in court, the AD reports.

‘The police want to get as many tips as possible to solve a case and to provide strong evidence in a trial,’ police spokesman Ron Looije told the paper. ‘But if you see the sort of images we get… you cannot expect much from them.’

For example, the footage of the Brinks money transport robbery in Amsterdam earlier this year is ‘abominable’, Gert-Jan Biersteker of the European security company association said. ‘And that from a company storing so much money,’ he added.

In another incident, a mugger who attacked people at cash point machines was filmed 17 times but found not quilty because of the quality of the images, the paper said.