8/5/2008

Local News

Six new CCTV sites

CCTV is being introduced to six new areas in Surrey Heath after security cameras were found to be successfully stamping out crime in the borough. 
The Safer Surrey Heath Partnership received £1,200 in funding for new brackets, which will allow mobile CCTV cameras to be set up there.
This brings the total number of camera sites to 21.
Each location has been identified as an area which would benefit from greater CCTV coverage. The six new sites are at: Surrey Avenue, Park Street and Watchetts Road in Camberley; Frimley High Street; Martindale Avenue, Heatherside; and Rosewood Way, Bisley.
In total, there are now four mobile cameras that can be used.
PC Robin Wood, Crime Reduction Advisor for West Surrey Police, said: “The use of portable CCTV in the borough has proven to be a successful deterrent to anti-social behaviour.
“As crime levels in Surrey Heath continue to sit well below the national average, expanding our CCTV capabilities is primarily about providing reassurance to residents and business owners, and helping to reduce fear of crime within the community.
“The cameras do, of course, act as effective deterrents to anti-social behaviour and incidents of criminal damage and alcohol-related crime.”
The existing sites with electrical mount brackets for a mobile CCTV camera are: Bracknell Close, Old Dean; Evergreen Road, Frimley; Mytchett Crossroads; Oakdene, Chobham; West End War Memorial; Gordon Road, Camberley; Cumberland Road, Heatherside; Townside Place, Camberley; The Green, Frimley Green; Grayswood Drive, Mytchett; Windmill Fields, Windlesham; The Square, Lightwater; Crabtree Recreation Ground, Camberley; Ansell Road, Frimley; Bagshot High Street.
For more information about the Safer Surrey Heath Partnership, visit www.safersurreyheath.info

First printed in: Surrey Hants Star