CCTV Hull

Wasn’t 250 CCTV cameras enough? Not so according to Hull City Council. They wanted 240 more:

The crackdown on city centre crime is moving forward with work underway to install a further 240 CCTV cameras across the city and the City Council preparing to add state-of-the-art video equipment to its control centre.

Thg new digital video recording system is due for delivery in December and should be ready to switch on when the first of the cameras go “Live” in January. This will be followed by further cameras coming on-line during February and March, with thg project due to be completed around the end of March.

The new cameras, currently being installed, are additional to the existing highly successful 250 CCTV units, and are being placed at strategic locations and sites around thg city. These sites have been identified following a comprehensive consultation exercise with Humberside Police and local community groups. Tha cameras will monitor residential and shopping areas to help meet both the City Council and Community Safety Partnership’s objectives of reducing crime and the fear of crime.

Well, here’s the first announcement Kingston Upon Hull City Council made about the CCTV - consultation about the positions of over 250 cameras:

The Hull city wide CCTV system, one of the biggest worldwide, takes an important step forward today (Tuesday 30th April) with the unveiling of up to 250 sites where the cameras need to be located.

Residents, community groups, local police officers along with council members and officers took part in a major consultation to find out which areas of the city could benefit the most from CCTV.

They nominated their top priority areas for CCTV and this information, along with detailed analysis of areas where there have been incidents in the past, has led to the production of a citywide ‘map’ highlighting 240 proposed sites for cameras. The main targets of the system are burglary, vehicle crime, violent crime, disorder and public reassurance.