A mobile CCTV camera system with units that can be relocated within half a day is to be officially launched in Amber Valley.
The 12-camera system, introduced by Amber Valley Community Safety Partnership and funded largely using a Home Office grant, covers main routes in the borough and locations in which anti-social behavior has been reported on a regular basis.
The official launch is at Ripley Town Hall in Derbyshire. An invited audience will hear a short presentation about the capabilities of the new cameras and how they are being operated and will have an opportunity to ask questions.
Images collected by the system are of evidential quality and so can be used in court to help secure convictions against offenders. Monitoring of the system is being carried out by a private monitoring solutions company.
The locations for the new equipment, now fully installed and operational, have been selected using recorded crime information and police intelligence and they are not being announced publically. Signage is in place in the locations concerned.
The Community Safety Partnership says that if places in which the cameras are currently placed prove not to be benefiting from them, they will be moved to other locations. This can be easily achieved in less than a day.
Sally Price, Community Safety Officer with Amber Valley Community Safety Partnership, said: “We are sure that everyone will welcome the cameras. A great deal of work and consideration has gone into introducing them, including the writing of a protocol by Partnership Sergeant Julie Hay.
“The cameras will help us keep a close eye on areas where anti-social behaviour issues have arisen in the past, they can provide evidence, and most importantly they will help law-abiding people in the borough to feel safer.
“The grant to make this possible became available from Government Office and the members of the Partnership felt that they could play a significant role in reducing crime and anti-social behaviour and in reassuring those who live and work in the borough.”
