Issue - meetings
New Model for the Future Delivery of the Council’s Out of Hours Calls Triage and Shrewsbury Town Centre CCTV Monitoring
Meeting: 17/07/2024 - Cabinet (Item 182)
PDF 314 KBLead Member – Councillor Robert Macey, Portfolio Holder for Culture and Digital
Lead Officer – Nigel Newman
Additional documents:
Decision:
RESOLVED:
3.1 To agree to consult on the options set out
in this report with the preferred option being Option One.
3.2 That following consultation, a report will come back to Cabinet
for final decision
Minutes:
The Portfolio Holder for Culture and Digital presented the report seeking approval for a six week public and stakeholder consultation on the options which set out how Shropshire council and partners could run and fund CCTV for Shrewsbury Town Centre while separately ensuring the Council’s statutory out of hours emergency call handling is covered.
CCTV was not a service the Council was required by law to provide and Shrewsbury was the only area in the county where Shropshire Council provided and funded this service. The benefits of CCTV were not in dispute but it was not sustainable to continue to deliver it in light of the severe pressure on the budget. Ongoing maintenance of the camera network and system was also required and there was no budget to continue this beyond 31 July 2024 and partner funding had been requested to cover this.
The options for providing CCTV were set out in the report with identified pros and cons, the preferred option being option 1, as passive monitored system with retrieval support for police as needed..
RESOLVED:
3.1 To agree to consult on the options set out
in this report with the preferred option being Option One.
3.2 That following consultation, a report will come back to Cabinet
for final decision