Llandovery council to push ahead with CCTV (From South Wales Guardian)

Llandovery council to push ahead with CCTV

7:10am Tuesday 3rd November 2009

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LLANDOVERY town councillors are pressing ahead with plans to install a new stand-alone CCTV system at the town’s heritage centre – despite the disclosure the town is virtually crime-free.

Members have agreed to bring in a new system costing more than £3,800 along with an annual running cost of £462 after one councillor warned against complacency.

“We may live in a relatively safe town but every so often something crops up,” said Cllr Haydn Hudson.

“All the flower baskets were broken last Saturday night.

“I’m not saying we should spend £8,000 on this but we should make some kind of a start and be seen to be protecting our town.”

While councillors agreed a complete upgrade of the entire system was difficult to justify, a solitary system at the heritage centre could be treated as a pilot scheme.

Town mayor Helene Lovell said: “We understand that Llandovery’s a safe place but if we don’t have any cameras you can bet your life that some sort of incident will happen.”

Cllr Robin Ennion agreed but warned colleagues against “slavishly” following existing trends.

“I don’t want to see us following on the tails of other towns around the country and start slamming these cameras in all over the place,” he added.

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