CCTV
City Watch, an operational service within the Community Safety department of Liverpool City Council, runs the CCTV and Monitoring Service which provides city wide monitoring of CCTV, alarms, help points and radios over a 24 hour day, 365 days per year.
It is staffed by a partnership of Liverpool City Council Officers and serving Merseyside Police Officers.
The service now provides monitoring for:
- CCTV - 214 cameras
- Alarms - approximately 700 digital and Redcare - intruder/fire/ personal attack
- Radios - approximately 200 Street Crime Wardens, Patrol & Response Officers, Night Alert and Shop Alert
- Help Points - 12 street based Help Points.
The Control room provides citywide monitoring of public space, traffic management and council building CCTV and all council alarms (intruder, personal attack, fire). The co-ordination of the relevant response service is provided through the Control Room and a weighted speedier response is deployed to incidents.
Through its unique partnership and close interagency working, the control room has successfully targeted a number of hot spots across the city and targeted specific types of crime, resulting in financial savings to the city, improved public reassurance and a public deterrent to offenders.