New CCTV cameras will be installed at the main entrance of the Lake Pleasure Grounds following the approval of a Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) grant.
A CIL grant of £5,748 (plus VAT), funded by housing developers’ contributions to local infrastructure, was approved by councillors at a Town Council meeting last month to pay for the new equipment. The money will also pay for the Warminster and Westbury CCTV partnership to increase the capacity of the NVR server, the central hub which records and manages video data.
Earlier in the meeting, PC Chris Rideout from the Warminster Neighbourhood Policing Team described the CCTV partnership as “fantastic.”
He said, “We’ve been having quite a spate of shopliftings lately. We had quite a big one from Boots last week with one individual, it actually turned out to be just over £1,000 in one hit.
“It’s great to be able to work with the CCTV cameras, they were brilliant, they’re so quick on it, and we managed to catch him coming across Waitrose car park, and we had all the belongings back to Boots within an hour.
“He has been charged. So that’s quite positive. We’ve had other successes as well, but it’s largely down to that CCTV, it’s fantastic.”
To find out more about the work of the CCTV partnership, visit https://warminster-tc.gov.uk/community/cctv/ or contact admin@warminster-tc.gov.uk.
