CCTV has played a proactive role in fighting crime in the last 10 years

CCTV control rooms and monitoring systems are set up to public concerns about high levels of car crime and public disorder, most facility's has grown to include several residential areas all over the country. Most Councils also monitor from their CCTV control room Railway Station cameras and moterways.

The CCTV control centre continues to grow and diversify partly by utilizing surplus capacity to monitor alarms for private businesses and beyond. The income secured from these contracts secures the overall operation and presents the opportunity to look at the further expansion of CCTV into other public areas where concerns about crime have been expressed.