KIDDERMINSTER'S new CCTV cameras will cover virtually every street in the town centre to catch thieves and troublemakers on film.
They will be monitored from the offices of Bromsgrove District Council alongside a host of other cameras from throughout Wyre Forest's neighbouring district.
The cameras are at:
l Junction of Coventry Street and Blackwell Street: provides coverage of the entrance to the Swan shopping centre and the town centre as well as Coventry Street and Blackwell Street, home to the Swan Centre's multi-storey car park.
l Junction of Worcester Street and High Street: covers the two main streets in Kidderminster town centre and is directly opposite Woolworths. The camera can turn to provide fuller coverage of the entrance to the Swan Centre.
l Junction of Exchange Street and Vicar Street: monitors the entrance to Weavers Wharf and the area around the Rowland Hill statue as well as the front of the Swan and Yates's pubs.
l Bromsgrove Street car park: covers the massive car park by Wyre Forest Glades Leisure Centre. The camera can turn to monitor the entrance to the leisure centre.
l Prospect Hill: south of the Glades, this camera covers Prospect Hill, which leads into New Road.
l New Road: is busy late at night with revellers leaving pubs and Kidderminster's two night clubs, Redwoods and Mirage, in Dixon Street.
l Junction of New Road and Castle Road: covers the busy crossroads by Tesco and covers the entrance to nightclubs Redwoods and Mirage.
The images can be fed directly to West Mercia Constabulary headquarters at Hindlip near Worcester by two operators, who sit in front of the bank of monitors 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Bromsgrove District Council will be paid £25,000 a year to monitor the images while the cameras have cost £130,000.
Wyre Forest District Council, West Mercia Constabulary and Kidderminster Town Centre Partnership, which represents traders in the town, paid for the scheme.
Partnership chairman, Peter Picken said: "The installation of the cameras is another example of how the partnership is helping to improve Kidderminster as a place to shop, work and do business."
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