Now CCTV cameras on fire engines

“It’s very sad that we have to go to such lengths to safeguard our firefighters”
As quoted on northamptonchron.co.uk by Northamptonshire County Council spokesman

A new £24,000 CCTV camera system has been introduced to fire engines across the county to protect against attacks on firefighters.

Northamptonshire County Council has funded the five-month long project to install CCTV cameras on the fire engines that will record evidence to be used in the court against the offenders. The system has been rolled out to fire engines at the stations in The Mounts, Daventry, Long Buckby, Moulton, Mereway, Kettering, Wellingborough and Rushden.

The CCTV cameras are installed to protect the firefighters from serious offenders and used against them in the court of law

This step has been taken by the county council after a gang of youths attached firefighters with stones and bricks while dealing with a fire at a derelict school in Kingsthorpe earlier this month.

Source: Northampton Chron & Echo

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