There is a petition on Change.org for the UK's homeland security agency to make it mandatory for CCTV in "all new domestic and commercial premises." The petition was started by CCTV.co.uk, "a network of CCTV Installers covering the whole of the UK" and has 10 signatures so far.
The rationale is that it would deter crime and solve cases because the police can rarely do much unless they have hard evidence (which video surveillance would provide).
So, IPVM wants to know: