Big Brother increasingly has his eye on British Columbia.
The province says it will spend $1.8 million to put video systems in 320 more police cars, tripling the number of cars outfitted with the equipment.
Solicitor General John Van Dongen says the cameras will provide irrefutable evidence about incidents such as drunk driving, saving police paperwork and court time, and leading to more guilty pleas and convictions.
The province earlier announced new cameras in bait cars capable of giving dispatchers live images of people stealing cars and new red light cameras at 140 B.C. intersections with high crash rates.
And Vancouver city officials have said they're hoping to use provincial funding to increase camera surveillance in the city during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Civil liberties advocates have been critical of the increasing reliance on security cameras, especially plans to install closed-circuit television cameras during the Olympic Games that they say will remain afterwards.
