CCTV for Clarendon, Manchester

CCTV for Clarendon, Manchester


Clarendon and Manchester are poised to boost their crime fighting efforts by the end of the year with the installation of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) at strategic points in those parishes.

"We don't want just to catch the criminals. We would love for the cameras to be a preventative. We don't want the crime to happen - that is our priority, but if it happens we want to catch the culprits," Milton Brown, mayor for May Pen told the Observer. "I notice that in London the cameras are all over the place and people desist from certain actions because they are of the view that the camera is going to catch them.
We will be concentrating in the town centre and it is a modular system so we can always add more cameras."
Brown declined to say how much the project is going to cost or how many cameras were being installed.
More than 120 persons have been killed in Clarendon since the beginning of the year.

At the same time, Brown, who also heads the Association of Local Government Authorities (ALGA), disclosed that a delegation from the Convention of Scottish Local Authority (COSLA) arrived in the island last week with the aim of partnering with ALGA in carrying out the project.
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