Every day across Australia,
nearly 2 million cameras are monitoring your every public move.
And you won't believe what's being recorded.
What's he doing?
A dangerous domestic erupts right before the cameras...
She's talking about, "Don't hit me, don't hit me."
a train driver faces his worst nightmare...
and police watch in horror
as an officer is caught up in a high-speed chase.
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A quarter of a million cars
use this small stretch of highway in Sydney every day...
and CCTV cameras are recording every second
while control room operators keep a close watch.
The combination of large trucks and heavy traffic
means that one split second of lost concentration...
and the consequences can be lethal.
Camera 91.
Semitrailer's just jackknifed across the road.
On a Tuesday morning just after peak hour...
this truckie recklessly cuts across two lanes,
failing to see a car in his far left lane.
As both the truck and car swerve to miss each other,
the truck then loses control,
crossing five lanes of traffic
and clipping a car which can't get out of his way.
But it doesn't stop there.
And is propelled backwards into the oncoming traffic.
I'm closing southbound now.
Yeah, Harbour Tunnel control room.
Your camera 99 - we've got a semitrailer
that's jackknifed across onto your lanes 5 and 6.
This accident stopped city-bound traffic
for almost two hours.
It's Friday afternoon in Melbourne
when suddenly, a man in a stolen ute
leads police on a high-speed chase
through the streets of inner-city Prahran.
Ground units immediately request an Air Wing.
So we were there basically to provide observations.
We've got a video camera on board
and we can relay down to the ground units
what is actually happening.
Once over the pursuit,
Air Wing officers realise just how dangerous
this situation could become.
The driver of the car was weaving in and out of traffic,
swerving violently, I suppose you could say,
missing cars by the narrowest of margins.
Luckily there was no pedestrians crossing the road.
Um, and I feared the worst
that there was going to be a serious accident occur.
The driver continues speeding before the inevitable happens.
Ground units surround the trapped ute to arrest the man.
The police units have come in behind him and, normally,
someone would be apprehended at this time
and that's when I've come up on the radio and said
that there'll be one in custody shortly.
But no-one expected what happened next.
When I saw the police member get in the back of the ute,
I was quite surprised at the time.
I didn't actually know what was happening.
It was all too surreal.
As the offender accelerates,
the police member makes a split-second decision
to jump in the back of the ute
to avoid being crushed between two vehicles.
It's then driven erratically along the road
and the member was, to me,
it looked like he was hanging on for his life.
I couldn't control it, but my number-one priority
was making sure the member in the back of the ute got out safely
and to me, sitting in the helicopter at 700ft above him,
I was helpless yet watching it all unfold,
and I just prayed that he got out OK.
As smoke pours from his damaged front tyre,
the offender tries in vain to control the vehicle
before coming to a stop on the wrong side of the road.
That's when the member has got out of the ute
and apprehended the driver with the assistance of other police
who have arrived shortly after.
Thankfully, the member was able to get out of the ute safely.
Camera 99 - look at the explosion.
We've had a massive truck accident up there.
We're gonna have to close off.
The 2.3km stretch of the Sydney Harbour Tunnel
is monitored by 120 cameras.
That's one camera every 60m.
Make a wrong move and one thing's for certain - you're being watched.
Camera 76, we've got people on the road.
And at 3:00am one Sunday morning,
the most extraordinary event unfolded
right before the cameras.
What's he doing?
The incidents that the cameras catch inside the tunnel
are pretty unbelievable.
A car come to a stop.
Door open.
And when you look inside,
you can see what looks like a physical altercation
going on through the windscreen.
We've got an issue northbound, mate.
Just past the breakdown bay, we've got people on the road.
I'm closing the northbound,
so if you can get trucks and police down there ASAP, mate.
A lady jumps out.
Then walks behind the car,
eventually jumps up onto the New Jersey Barrier,
which is a barrier that runs along the side of the tunnel...
and then starts thumping on the doors
trying to open a telephone door.
There's telephones every 60m in the tunnel.
She eventually manages to open it.
Hello, hello. We can see you in the carriageway.
Can you talk to the phone, please?
No, she's dropped the phone
and she's talking about, "Don't hit me, don't hit me."
There's just this shouting across the cars
between the car and the lady.
And in the meantime, the lady then started walking out of the tunnel -
walking north in the tunnel.
Suddenly, the car drives off, leaving the woman on her own.
But as operators watch anxiously, the vehicle returns.
The car she got out of, in the meantime,
has driven further north, then reversed back down.
He's done this twice.
The lady then seems to be suffering from a fair amount of distress
because she starts to curl up and collapses on the barrier.
Authorities are on their way.
Traffic has been diverted to the other lane.
But what happens next puts everyone in danger.
The man starts to cross in front of traffic
that's travelling at up to 80km/ph.
The driver of the car has his back to oncoming traffic
and he drags her off the New Jersey Barrier...
If you're a driver and you drive around the bend -
you've seen some warning signs in the ceiling
to say move into this lane -
you get into that lane because you believe it's free
and then you see someone dragging a lady across the road,
the thought process going through your mind is, "Oh, shit - where to?"
There's nowhere to swerve to in the tunnel.
Then a taxi stops.
I think what's happened,
the taxi's passing as this guy's dragging the lady back into the car.
All the occupants of the taxi got out,
and they looked like youngsters,
and then confronted to see what was going on.
We've got about eight people milling around inside the tunnel.
When you've got people on the road
and they're an obstruction on the road,
everybody in the vicinity of that car
is being exposed to an added danger.
Before police and emergency services arrived,
the man had driven off with the woman in the car.
In a central Melbourne office tower,
Wilson Parking remotely monitors
over a hundred car parks across Australia.
Excuse me. Please don't touch the gate.
The highly-trained staff are watching 650 cameras
feeding back live to the control room.
These guys are on the lookout 24/7
for behaviour that is out of the ordinary.
We see a lot of things in car parks
that people on the street necessarily don't think happen.
What people don't understand is that they are seen, they are watched,
they are monitored, and should it need be,
they will be prosecuted.
Just letting you know you're on camera
and police have already been dispatched.
Every night in here and every day in here is different.
Our staff here are trained to identify what's happening.
You might want to get onto security as quick as you can.
Yep, no worries.
We have standard operating procedures that we follow for different circumstances,
but again, some things pop up that even we find humorous.
Learner drivers have to practise in all situations.
Obviously driving in car parks
is something that they need to do in the future,
so quite often parents will bring them through a car park
and let them drive through.
One particular instance with a Lexus...
the rate board came off second-best.
We see people hit boom gates, we see people hit structures,
walls, pillars, other vehicles.
What we see in car parks shouldn't happen
but it does, regularly.
Last year, there were nearly 2,000 recorded near-misses
as a result of people taking stupid risks on train tracks.
Trains are big and heavy and relatively fast.
You don't do the right thing, yeah, they can be very dangerous.
These trains,
if they're travelling at a normal track speed of 80-90km/ph,
you're looking at several hundred metres -
we're talking, you know, two lengths of a football field
for these trains to pull up.
Train drivers face a staggering number of dangerous encounters
when people trespass on railways.
People just misbehaving.
Drunks who mightn't even think they're doing the wrong thing
but just their mind's not in the right place.
So there's a range of factors out there that, you know,
the drivers really have to have their wits about them.
Every so often, you just see something and think,
"Wow - what the hell was that person thinking?"
Just when you think you've seen it all,
there'll be something new that'll pop up and just amaze you.
One such incident caught on CCTV in South Australia defies belief.
It was at one of our stations up on the northern line at Mawson Lakes.
There was a guy.
The driver on the train in question,
he was on an express run to the city,
so he's travelling through there maybe 80-90km/ph.
He wasn't expecting to stop at Mawson Lakes.
And he wasn't expecting to see a man running right in front of the train.
The young man waits as a train pulls up
to the side of the platform he's standing on...
before making his move.
Now, he walked behind one train
and the train on the other line was approaching.
He thought it was going to stop. This train wasn't stopping.
So it was coming a lot, lot faster than he thought.
He scrambled up on the platform in the nick of time, literally,
We always see the headlines about, you know,
'millimetres from death' and you think, "Oh, yeah, maybe."
But when you see the footage from this one, no, it literally was the case
and he was just so, so lucky it wasn't all over.
And it was just as terrifying for the driver.
It would have been a complete shock to see this person run out
and when he clipped that guy,
he wouldn't have been sure at that point
whether he'd killed him or what happened.
What was going through his mind would not have been pleasant.
In Australia, over $2 billion worth of goods
are stolen from retail outlets every year.
There's not a typical profile of a shoplifter or a thief.
It can be male or female, between the ages of 10 or 100.
So more and more stores are using CCTV surveillance
as part of their strategy to catch thieves...
Due to the measures that we have in place,
we find that our night-time break-and-enters are a rare event.
However, when they do occur, they can be quite extreme.
It was about 5:30 in the morning at a regional Queensland store,
and you've got a car that's been used
to smash open the front door.
You've got three guys that have run into the store.
Two of them have started to smash our cabinets
while the other person's run to the back of the store.
The thieves have headed straight for the electronics counter.
These high-value goods are the most common items stolen.
As these two vandals continue to smash their way into the cabinet,
they are unaware that everything is being recorded on CCTV...
and police will be viewing every frame.
Running out of the store,
You can see that they're a bit clumsy.
They've run into each other at one point
and dropped further merchandise near the car.
And then you see the third person that ran at the back of the store
running out with LCD TV items.
The matter's over in less than a minute.
Then they drive off.
But this matter is referred to police
for investigation and prosecution.
Crossing Sydney Harbour
can be a confusing and often stressful experience.
With so many lanes to choose from, motorists take dangerous risks
when they realise they're in the wrong lane.
I've been here for nearly 20 years
and I still get amazed
at the arrogance or the stupidity of people when they're on the road.
Carrying over 250,000 vehicles daily,
all roads approaching the Harbour
are closely monitored via CCTV cameras...
and one morning, operators spot a car suddenly stopped
during busy peak-hour traffic.
And as they watch in horror, a woman gets out of the car right in front of oncoming traffic.
We've got a vehicle stopped at the toll plaza, Vic - camera 91.
Yeah, I've got him.
What the hell is she doing? I bet she hasn't got an e-Tag.
This particular morning,
this lady had come down and found herself in the wrong lane -
she wanted to be able to pay cash -
and rather than change lanes
or drive through and sort it out afterwards,
got out of the car in front of...
We have 40-odd thousand cars a day going in that direction at the time.
And then try to rip the barrier out of the road
so she could drive across a barrier and get into another traffic lane.
I bet she hasn't got an e-Tag.
On the face of it, and when you look at the video, it's quite comical.
In reality, it is extremely dangerous.
She's obviously not paying attention to what's going on around her,
which means she could get hit.
In incidents where you've got people on the road,
not only does she put herself in danger,
we have to place our staff in danger
because they have to go and talk to her.
I'll just get onto the toll controller and advise.
Yeah, control room here.
The vehicle stopped in the e-Tag lanes?
She's trying to attack the barrier.
You have to take into account
that although you think you know what you're doing,
not every motorist out there is aware of what they're doing.
When the road supervisor reaches her,
he instructs the woman to get back into the vehicle.
Initially, we believed she was the driver
and just trying to change lanes
but it appears there was a guy inside the car
who was urging her to get these barriers out of the way
so HE could drive across the barriers.
After a lengthy negotiation, both the woman and the driver
agree to move on.
Some people just need a wake-up call to say,
"Guys, look where you are and look what you're doing.
"Move on."
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