Edition 5 April 2023
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CCTV’s huge role to play
Eye in the sky CCTV is designed to help prevent and detect crime and to reassure the public about community safety.
It has a huge role to play in keeping people safe in Exeter - and the investment made in two Government funded Safer Streets projects has upgraded the city’s system to state of the art. In 2022 71 new cameras were erected in 32 locations. In 2023 another 54 cameras have been installed in 21 locations. A further 58 cameras went on line at 27 locations funded by the city council and the police commissioner. Put together, by this summer, there will be over 200 cameras monitoring public spaces, shopping areas and car parks across the city delivering high resolution images to the newly upgraded especially because monitoring room. the new systems The council has also provide fantastic funded three new fullquality evidence to time posts for the police and monitoring staff. relevant enforcement “The benefits of CCTV agencies,” said are clear to Exeter
State of the art: Images provided from new cameras (above) are viewed in the upgraded monitoring room (below)
Simon Lane, who has led on the CCTV workstream for the city council. “The advance our system has undergone in recent
years is largely thanks to the investment made through the Safer Streets fund and the city is a safer place as a result of that.”