A £400,000 community safety fund designed to help with the implementation of various crime prevention schemes will be set up in Humberside, the region’s Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), Matthew Grove, has recently announced.
CCTV cameras might soon double as a Wi-Fi hotspot, as a part of the Government’s £150 million DCMS Urban Broadband Fund plan, whose ultimate target is to bring 80Mbps or faster internet connections to UK cities.
Business owners in the village of Eccleshill, West Yorkshire, are pleading for the installation of a public CCTV surveillance system, following a steep increase in armed robberies, break-ins, vandalism, vehicle crime and drug-dealing over the past few years.
A recent survey carried out by the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) estimated that there are between 4.9 and 5.9 million closed-circuit television (CCTV) surveillance cameras installed and operational across the UK, which translates into a camera for every 11-14 people.
Liverpool’s CCTV operation is touted as being the best in Europe, despite gradual funding cut-backs over the next couple of years, a news report in the local media reveals.
A recent report released by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) and HM Crown Prosecution Service Inspectorate (HMCPSI) revealed that, while significant effort has been made in recent years to improve efficiency in both the custody and criminal justice process, there are still a number of
As they’re faced with seemingly never-ending budget cuts, borough councils have started to look for all sorts of creative methods that would enable them to save money, but it in the same time keep in place vital services, such as public CCTV surveillance.
A brand new £300,000 camera suite has been officially opened at the York city council’s offices, in Station Rise, providing 24-hour coverage of about 120 cameras in the city.
Parents dropping of their kids at a school at Woodside Primary School, in Grays, are apparently sticking tape over their plate numbers in order to avoid being photographed by a Thurrock Council CCTV car and subsequently fined.
Following some serious concerns from pub owners and privacy advocates that surveillance cameras were becoming a legal condition of every license as a matter of course, the Government has revealed the fact that pubs in England and Wales with no history of trouble will no longer be forced by local authorities to install CCTV systems.