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Jan 22 2011, 09:02 AM
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QUOTE (blackdog @ Jan 22 2011, 02:18 AM) As a matter of interest - how many cameras were being monitored 12 months ago? In total, 100+.
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Jan 22 2011, 09:21 AM
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QUOTE (Richard Garvie @ Jan 22 2011, 09:02 AM) In total, 100+. So - have I got this right? We are saving 50% of the CCTV budget and getting less than 40% of the coverage. So the annual cost per camera is rising by over 20%.
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Jan 22 2011, 02:25 PM
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QUOTE (Richard Garvie @ Jan 22 2011, 09:02 AM) In total, 100+. At the same time?
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Jan 22 2011, 03:38 PM
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QUOTE (dannyboy @ Jan 22 2011, 02:25 PM) At the same time? Do you & User still not think we need an open investigation?
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Jan 22 2011, 04:16 PM
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QUOTE (Richard Garvie @ Jan 22 2011, 04:08 PM) Including the number plate cameras, we had well over 100. I have to say that at least we are finally getting somewhere with the cameras that are working. They say 24 are now fully operational, but this is after they told me 27 were working. An investigation is the only way to resolve this fully now. Shush!! Do you not take security seriously? User, Dannyboy & WBC don't want to let the local crims know the cameras are not working for security reasons, even though it has been common knowledge for some weeks. Get a D notice slapped on quick User before an investigation is called for!
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Jan 23 2011, 12:42 AM
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QUOTE (Richard Garvie @ Jan 22 2011, 04:08 PM) Including the number plate cameras, we had well over 100. I have to say that at least we are finally getting somewhere with the cameras that are working. They say 24 are now fully operational, but this is after they told me 27 were working. An investigation is the only way to resolve this fully now. Ah, including the ANPR cameras. Any other cameras you'd like to fess up on? Were they all monitored at the same time then? You know, from the control room.
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Jan 23 2011, 12:43 AM
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QUOTE (Cognosco @ Jan 22 2011, 03:38 PM) Do you & User still not think we need an open investigation? No, I don't think we do.
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Jan 23 2011, 10:07 AM
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QUOTE (dannyboy @ Jan 23 2011, 12:42 AM) Ah, including the ANPR cameras. Any other cameras you'd like to fess up on?
Were they all monitored at the same time then? You know, from the control room. The fact is, CCTV cameras in the district have been more than halved in the past 12 months.
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Jan 23 2011, 10:30 AM
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QUOTE (Iommi @ Jan 23 2011, 10:15 AM) Whether cameras are working or not, for me, isn't the issue. Mine is: is it adequate cover and is the real-time monitoring up to pre move standards. Beyond that, perhaps we should have stats to demonstrated the CCTV system's usefulness; before and after upgrade. The council will never do that, do you really think they want to show how much they bodged this up!!!
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Jan 23 2011, 12:35 PM
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QUOTE (Bofem @ Jan 23 2011, 12:07 PM) Great news to see more cameras being switched off. Let's hope they go the whole hog soon, so these resources can be deployed on effective crime-fighting measures. http://www.newbury.net/forum/m-1295785617/s-/s-new/“Since the Exclusion Order Scheme was set up we have seen a sustained 50 per cent reduction in shoplifting. This is thanks to partnership working between the police, council and other agencies involved in Shopsafe.”
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Jan 23 2011, 12:45 PM
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QUOTE (Iommi @ Jan 23 2011, 12:35 PM) http://www.newbury.net/forum/m-1295785617/s-/s-new/“Since the Exclusion Order Scheme was set up we have seen a sustained 50 per cent reduction in shoplifting. This is thanks to partnership working between the police, council and other agencies involved in Shopsafe.” The Exclusion Order Scheme isn't CCTV. It's something that can be enforced by a number of measures, including CCTV.
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Jan 23 2011, 12:48 PM
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QUOTE (Bofem @ Jan 23 2011, 12:07 PM) Great news to see more cameras being switched off. Let's hope they go the whole hog soon, so these resources can be deployed on effective crime-fighting measures. Shush don't tell the local crims they are being switched off!!! You will get User on telling the traders they should claim compensation from you!!! Instead of the council who seem to be the only culprits in the massive shambles the CCTV has become. You know the council are guilty of something when your complaints are met with a wall of silence? But of course I should have remembered they can't comment for security reasons? I think there is someone lives just outside Inkpen that has not heard there are problems with the CCTV system so don't want to give any secrets away do we? I can't comment on how effective the camera's are or are not my only gripe is that the council told lies to the local business community! OK if the camera's are not effective then surely the business community, police, and pubwatch needs to be informed of that and the decision should have been made to scrap the lot; not go through all the expenditure of moving them to Windsor and still be paying for an inferior system and with far fewer camera's; it does not make economic sense? Some Project Manager at the council needs a lot of retraining if this is the case and councilors need to be made accountable for such a situation arising. We need an investigation and promptly so that the electorate can make decisions in the coming May elections? Or is that why they are trying to stall an investigation?
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Jan 23 2011, 02:49 PM
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QUOTE (Cognosco @ Jan 23 2011, 12:48 PM) Shush don't tell the local crims they are being switched off!!! You will get User on telling the traders they should claim compensation from you!!! Instead of the council who seem to be the only culprits in the massive shambles the CCTV has become. You know the council are guilty of something when your complaints are met with a wall of silence? But of course I should have remembered they can't comment for security reasons? I think there is someone lives just outside Inkpen that has not heard there are problems with the CCTV system so don't want to give any secrets away do we? I can't comment on how effective the camera's are or are not my only gripe is that the council told lies to the local business community! OK if the camera's are not effective then surely the business community, police, and pubwatch needs to be informed of that and the decision should have been made to scrap the lot; not go through all the expenditure of moving them to Windsor and still be paying for an inferior system and with far fewer camera's; it does not make economic sense? Some Project Manager at the council needs a lot of retraining if this is the case and councilors need to be made accountable for such a situation arising. We need an investigation and promptly so that the electorate can make decisions in the coming May elections? Or is that why they are trying to stall an investigation? So in his letter to the paper, Cllr Stansfield insisted that community safety budgets would not be cut (well, he says that after the bit he admits the CCTV budget has been cut by quarter of a million). Now we know that the shopsafe coordinator is being made redundant and that unless the private sector take over the running of the scheme, it will be scrapped. Apparently in the TCP meeting, council officer Andy Day suggested that the person responsible for ShopSafe was "moving on". I have it from my sources that it was then revealed she is actually being made redundant, and Brian Burgess has now confirmed that via the other forum. When will the misleading stop, and the truth of the situation be told? As cognosco has said, if the CCTV system is useless, why move it to Windsor at all??? I already know what has gone on since the 17th December, but certain people on here would like to think it's not true. If an investigation is not forthcoming once the network is operational, I will publish everything online and people can make their own minds up.
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Jan 23 2011, 03:39 PM
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QUOTE (user23 @ Jan 23 2011, 12:45 PM) The Exclusion Order Scheme isn't CCTV. I know. QUOTE (user23 @ Jan 23 2011, 12:45 PM) It's something that can be enforced by a number of measures, including CCTV. Exactly. It forms a part of a greater whole.
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