Colchester CCTV Success

Colchester town centre improved CCTV system helped with dozens of arrests in the last four months.

11:05 27 August 2018

Colchester Council’s town centre CCTV network has received a major upgrade with significant investment in industry-standard high definition cameras in an effort to crackdown on anti-social behaviour in the area.

 

A spokesman for the council said: “We moved our CCTV monitoring centre to a new location in the town centre in late-2014.

 

“It also included a major upgrade to IT and monitoring equipment as well as improvements to our processes and procedures.

 

“We have delivered further improvements to our CCTV network, in the past two years, with significant investment in industry-standard high-definition cameras at 13 locations in the town centre, including Crouch Street.

 

“While these new HD cameras deliver approximately four times better image quality and much-improved night-vision capabilities compared to standard definition CCTV.

 

“There is, nevertheless, a limit to the amount of fine detail they are able to capture.

 

“Furthermore, image quality is liable to diminish and or pixelate when footage is cropped tightly to highlight details in a much smaller section of a single video frame.”

 

The council is also investing £240,000 to add ten new employees to its existing team of zone wardens, licensing officers and anti-social behaviour officers.