Barnsley Safer Neighbourhood Team

A BSIA member's mobile digital CCTV system has been used to equip two new patrol vehicles in support of Barnsley’s multi-agency Safer Neighbourhood Teams (SNTs). The solution is being used primarily to help tackle anti-social behaviour and reduce crime and disorder in the local area.

The new vehicles feature low light CCTV cameras on the front and also roof mounted; an on-board monitor for image review; advanced digital recording and control equipment and external microphones. Where large groups of youths congregate at night in a field adjacent to a local housing estate to drink alcohol, rather than simply sending Impact Wardens or Police Community Support Officers into the field to take drinks off the underage youths, which will tend to make them scatter and cause more problems, the equipment is applied intelligently to identify specific things they are doing and so take more targeted action against key individuals. The presence of the vans provides much needed reassurance to the local community that problems are being tackled as well as making offenders think twice about their actions.

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