Absolutely, yes - I definitely think that there should be cameras in secluded areas and there should be street lights there as well.

I live close to a local park and it's quite big, with lots of field space and clumps of trees and bushes. There are no lights whatsoever in this park, and it's a big place. It's not a park that ever closes or anything like that, so it's a popular shortcut for people who live around here, including me but only if I'm on my bike. I would NEVER walk through there at night.

I don't know what the situation is with cameras on the park - there's a police station at the edge of it but it's unmanned and I assume there will be cameras on the station but they won't be able to see through the trees that are a few feet away from them on the other side of the road.

Last year some young boys were sexually assaulted on the park at night when they'd gone there to camp out. The attackers forced the boys to perform sexual acts on each other but, because there are no cameras, the whole process of getting those animals locked up took way too long in my opinion. If their DNA information hadn't already been stored from previous crimes and arrests, it would have been even more difficult to find them and lock them up based on DNA and limited descriptions alone.

I'm going to be pestering my council to put lights up in the park - people don't get attacked often on the main road where it's all lit up, yet there is an overload of CCTV cameras there - why not in the park?

I sure would feel safer in secluded areas with cameras. There is nothing creepier than being somewhere alone where you know no one would ever know if you were being attacked or mugged.

Not if they are tax funded and on public property. The UK has proven that CCTV cameras are a waste of tax payer money, as they have done little to prevent or solve crimes. They are definitely a privacy risk, as they offer a tremendous potential for a "Big-brother" like government to misuse them.

Putting cameras in a secluded area makes even less sense, as there would likely be fewer people passing in front of the camera to record and fewer chances of a return on investment for tax payers. Also, people's expectations of privacy increase with seclusion, so the threat to privacy would be greater. For example, if a couple finds a nice secluded spot on the beach, they might believe themselves to be safe from prying eyes and perform private acts that could be captured by the camera without their knowledge. The secluded camera would in a sense have violated the couple's mistakenly perceived privacy.