Every day, high up in the Carlton building, a prestigious 50-storey tower block in the middle of Johannesburg's Central Business District (CBD), dozens of men and women sit hunched over banks of TV screens, monitoring images coming in from 200 surveillance cameras covering the CBD's entire 30 square kilometres. This is the control room of Cueincident, the brainchild of a consortium called Business Against Crime (BAC). It was set up to co-ordinate the Johannesburg business community's response to the 1990s crime wave that central government seemed powerless to stop, and now has revenues of about 40m rand a year.
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