How about mobile CCTV cameras to surveillance litterbugs?
A hidden mobile CCTV camera unit has been proposed by a member of Morth Tipperary Co council to track down litterbugs and fight illegal dumping and other offences.
At last month’s meeting of the Roscrea-Templemore Electoral Area Committee, Cllr John Hogan recommended that the local authority could buy a mobile CCTV camera unit and move it between hidden locations every weekly.
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Cllr Hogan said mobile CCTV cameras have been used with some success in other parts of the country. “No one knows they are there but everyone knows they are in the county,” he said, adding that the cameras are battery operated and can be programmed to switch themselves on only when someone passes.
Members welcomed Cllr Hogan’s proposal at last week’s meeting, where littering problems in the Roscrea area were discussed.
Covert anti-dumping cameras are currently used by Dublin City Council, so far this year the CCTV footage has secured 12 prosecutions.
The council estimates that at any one location four hidden mobile cameras will successfully capture about 10 per cent of dumping incidents happening.
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I know someone recently that was approached by someone from the local police community support group and asked if they could put a tempory camera in their back garden shed to monitor fly tipping.
So it look like it will become very normal soon, for families that are reporting such things as anti-social behaviour in their area, for the police to come and install temp CCTV systems to catch it in action.