Preventing Crime and Promoting Public Safety through CCTV

North Somerset Council took the decision in 2005 to upgrade its CCTV system from analogue to digital recording and more recently have looked to ADT to complete the work.  

The objectives being to further assist the police service and those agencies with responsibility for public safety with significant opportunities to deter offenders, identify crimes in progress, monitor the activities of suspects and provide evidence to support the prosecution process.  CCTV coverage not only assists police officers in the identification of offenders but also helps to establish the nature, location and time of the crime.

 Chris Harrison, CCTV Manager at North Somerset Council comments:

‘Upgrading the CCTV System in place at North Somerset has proven invaluable in helping deter and detect crime and the effects are clear from the falling statistics.  Not only did crime fall by 17% during the year that the new control room was commissioned, but we are proud to be able to state that 1 out of 7 events recorded by CCTV currently ends in an arrest .’

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