Apologies for the lack of blog updates of late. I’ve been spending a bit of time with my family and have taken in some sights of England over the past couple of weeks over the summer break. (More on that later) This week, I’ve been to the seaside and visited Southends CCTV control room with […]
A brief note to readers: Before I ‘lift-off’ with this report I have removed some of the content due to the sensitive nature of the subject matter. Therefore this report isn’t conclusive of all the actions taken. This week I’ve attended the latest Community Safety working group meeting. To say, I was kind of reserved […]
I have recently published my views on CCTV here and this has met with mixed reactions from members of the public. Not one to ruin the party, I propose the concept of a wide network of community manned CCTV cameras. What’s different?Manned CCTV is a different beast to an unmanned system. Live images being monitored […]
As new data protection laws come into force, GDPR, one service that Rayleigh Town Council was responsible for has now been ‘decommissioned’ CCTV in our town centre has been all but removed due to the new legislation that would have put demands on the resources of the Town council. Other organisations such as the Chamber […]