Neighbour has installed a camera pointing at our garden

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The title sums it up really.

Our nightmare neighbour has now placed a security camera in their upstairs window which points at our garden, not at their garden at all, and then gone away. It's been there for 4 days now and I can see it from 90% of the garden including the trampoline and paddling pool. So I'm not letting the children out in the back garden.
I've phoned the police and am waiting for them to contact me.
Has anyone had this before? Can anyone relate or advise?
Thanks

While waiting for the police I would have to annoy them. I'm assuming it's going to be connected to their phone so I would be out there setting the thing off every minute of the day so it pings them every time you're out there!

What's the backstory to this?

Illegal surely?

We’ve got two security cameras in our garden pointing to our neighbors garden after he stole from us. The police suggested we do this because it would provide evidence. Not illegal where we live.

Are you sure it’s pointing at your garden and not theirs?

Heya.
So we've been there 10 years. The neighbour has been rude from day 1. She has in the past, sworn at my children, threatened my eldest child, used a hosepipe on us, spread malicious rumours, uses her car or bin to block the pavement so my children can't play there, attempts to intimidate any and all visitors to our home including our vicar, damaged our property....the list goes on. We have tried complete grey rocking, bit this person appears so desperate for a reaction.
We have front and rear cameras after the neighbour was seen on our property whilst we were away, and the rear camera caught them damaging our fence.

Just posted above

Definitely. It's angled to the right and a clear straight line is the centre of our garden. The position of it means it isn't even covering 50% of their garden

Surely not letting your kids in the garden is giving him what he wanys

Ok is this in retaliation for your cameras videoing them?

The random thing is that our camera has been there for almost 2 years....so why now. She is always staring at our house and had commented days agyer we first got them to a neighbour that we had them......

Also should point out that our camera doesn't show their garden at all. I put bluetack on the lense to blur it out

Do they know that you can’t see their garden on your camera though?
They might have blutac on their camera.

Can you put up some sort of obstacle just inside your fence but in the direct line of sight of the camera? Like a sale or similar.

The whole lense would need to be bluetacked to not be filming us. Instead of pointing straight ahead, it's pointing st a 45 degree angle directly at our garden

SAIL. Not sale.

Ironically. This was our plan a few months ago as the person stares onto our garden from the window. I think I would have to cover the whole side of the garden though

God my neighbours gbours are a nightmare but you all out there videoing each other is next level,,

It was the police who advised us to put cameras up in the first place after deliberate damage was done

Just ignore it, act like it's not there. You're letting her win. If she was at home she could sit and stare out of her window if she wanted, so she's not going to see anything on the video that she couldn't normally see from her property, is it really worth upsetting your kids for?

Put one up as a temporary measure and longer term do something like a trellis with evergreen climbers, build a pergola that blocks some of the garden.

You shouldn't have to, but even if you get the camera taken down/moved she's going to keep looking in. Make it private.

Get the police to go into your garden and look up at the camera, that should ping ndn, if it's connected to their phone but it might just be a fake camera. I'd wave back if I thought it wouldn't aggravate the situation.

In the short term, buy a high tent/gazebo thing whatever they're called or one of those three metre parasols or something and angle it so it blocks their camera view.

Take pictures of it and try to show that it's covering your garden.

I would have suggested that you have loud conversations near the camera about your lawyer asking you to gather proof that your children are being filmed playing in their bathing suits for "the investigation" but tbh it sounds like these are people you should avoid escalating things with.

CCTV should really only be used to film your own property unless it’s unavoidable.

It’s a hard one though, and I really sympathise as I have a friend going through something similar. Does she own her property do you think? If it’s rented you could try the landlord, she sounds like a nightmare.

That you have children strengthens your case with the police.

https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/domestic-cctv-systems/

See I’d end up going out and acting out some faux ritual sacrifice on the back lawn or something