Plans to install eight CCTV cameras across streets in Great Yarmouth are gathering pace.
Great Yarmouth Borough Council and Norfolk Constabulary are working together to install the devices following residents’ feedback on the proposed locations.
It means there will eventually be a network of 80 CCTV cameras across the town.
Other locations for the cameras are Deneside, York Road, Rodney Road, Havelock Road, Nelson Road Central, Victoria Road and Kimberley Terrace/Camperdown.
The cameras are being installed following a survey last year which saw 135 responses, with 121 of them from residents of the borough.
The remaining 14 were from business owners, sports clubs and parish, district and county councillors.
Results showed nearly 80pc of those who completed the survey agreed with the proposed installation of the CCTV cameras.
Comments left included residents believing “the presence of the cameras always makes people feel safer as they are being monitored 24/7”, that they think the cameras will help “prevent crime and keep people safer” and that they “will make people think twice if they try to do something anti-social”.
All of the cameras are fully operational with pan, tilt and zoom facilities and are clear enough to capture number plates on passing cars.
The new CCTV cameras will be monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by an experienced team of operators from Community Safety (Great Yarmouth) Ltd which currently monitors other cameras in the borough.
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