Dartmouth Town Council are planning to install three permanent Public Space CCTV cameras at locations in Dartmouth
The camera at Milton Lane is to monitor potential criminal movements via the Stoke Flemming route as the police are aware that criminals looking to enter and leave Dartmouth will use this route to avoid the ANPR camera on the A3122. It is also there to monitor and deter dangerous driving in order to protect children going to and from school.
From an operational perspective, the camera in this position will have a transmitter to beam the signal to the relay at Hoodown which in turn transmits it to the Torbay hub. It needs to be there to achieve clear line of sight that is not obstructed be tree growth on the Embankment.
Similarly, the police advised Dartmouth Town Council that a camera at the junction of Townstal Road and Britannia Avenue would monitor and deter criminals accessing and leaving the estate as well as dangerous driving at that complex junction.
These cameras have a limited functionality. They are not ANPR devices and have no speed assessment capabilities. The footage is transmitted to the Torbay hub and stored. That footage can be requested and viewed by police. The people authorised to view is strictly controlled, in effect only the police have permission to access (councillors and Dartmouth Town Council staff are not given access to the system). Cameras can be monitored in real time by the hub staff in Torbay.
In terms of privacy, the cameras can be trained automatically or manually by the Torbay hub staff however, we understand these cameras can and will be electronically blacked out such that they cannot see into people’s private spaces.