So you think they have deliberately issued the worst images and they have better ones available . I think these are the best they have and often all they have. The guy on the bike will prob only be seen from the rear once he turns the corner by the grapes and side view only from Mama mias camera IMO.
This is an interesting discussion.
Following on from what TTWO suggested about the police only wanting the person themselves to come forward. Some thoughts on that.
We have pretty strict data protection and privacy laws here, and there are some complex regulations around cctv. Many of those regulations are applicable to the police.
Most of the time when the police give us a clear image of someone on cctv, eg on Crimewatch or similar, it's because the person captured in the image is either the victim of a crime and therefore known, OR they're someone the police are very keen to talk to. ie the police believe that the person has 'a lot of information' about the crime.
In the images we've seen, nobody except Corrie is easily identifiable.
Imagine if someone was recognisable to the general public in these stills.
In some quarters the pitch forks are being drawn and you and I really wouldn't want our image splashed across social media, especially in this particular case, if we were innocently going about our business in BSE that Saturday morning.
The police have probably tried to stay within the law around data protection and also tried to protect the people in those stills from vigilante type attacks.
Makes sense given that from what we're being told by the police, there is no evidence of any crime having been committed.
So perhaps the police have selected images for public release that wouldn't make the person identifiable to strangers, but where someone may hopefully recognise themself and come forward.
IF these images are the best they have, well that opens a whole different can of worms doesn't it? :thinking:
MOO