Town centres - closed circuit television - CCTV
The CCTV Control room
- CCTV Control is owned and run solely by Maidstone Borough
Council
- The Control room was officially opened on the April 25, 1995 by
the then Mayor, the late Cllr Fred Winkless
- The CCTV Control room operates 24 hours a day, seven days a
week, 365 days a year and has been fully active apart from four
hours of emergency work.
- The control room has two operators per 10 hour shift.
- It has emergency power for any unforeseen power outages.
- The recording system is a mix of analogue and digital
recording.
- It has 116 fixed town centre cameras and 19 mobile cameras,
which is able to be lifted into place within 15 minutes providing
power is available to feed the cameras.
- The Control room has a van complete with a high lift arm (13.5
metres maximum height) for deploying the mobile cameras for both
servicing and interrogating the camera hard drives.
- All the town centre cameras are full pan- tilt -zoom and are
360 degrees rotational, all are fed ‘live’ to CCTV
Control.
- Night vision is fitted to specific cameras in hard to see
locations.
- The CCTV Control room currently averages 179 sanctions per
month. (Collective catches in partnership with Police Intel,
Radio Network and its own observations without assistance from
partners)
- The CCTV has approx 150 signed up Radio System members,
including at night pubs and clubs and in the day store
members.
Fellow partnership members
include:
- CCTV Operators
- Police Sgt and town centre officers
- Police Community Support Officers
- Security managers – local shopping centres
- Town Centre Intelligence Manager
- Council Officers – ASB Units, Environmental Officers…other
- Parking Enforcement