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In the last few years it was talked about that a CCTV system would be brilliant to protect the lights in there most vulnerable positions, which is the Market Place and Bridge.

Although most lately we have only been the victims of minor vandalism, most notably the bridge last year and some lights pulled from the tree, we feel that as well as protecting the lights themselves a good system would also cover the area generally at what is ultimately the busiest time in the Town centre.



Melksham’s own CCTV system is not fantastic and cannot cover the area we are most concerned about, so we set about last year thinking of ways to solve this problem. It was generally thought that CCTV was expensive, hard to install and surrounded by red tape. Its none of those.

We were approached by a non local company who were happy to donate the equipment in exchange for advertising in the town, brilliant, but this is Melksham - we want to support our town, and we have for many years dealt with Denmans Electrical in Bowerhill who have always been helpful, friendly and happy to help with our often random requests, we approached them about a similar package and it was agreed that they could donate the equipment to us. Since then a private investor (well, Paul) has purchased extra equipment enabling us to increase the coverage and quality of footage, and simplifying the ability for footage to be viewed and used by the Police.


The prime aim of the CCTV system is to protect the lights and Tree, especially this year as we intend to incorporate a collection system which is vulnerable if unguarded. A side effect of this is a extended surveillance system to cover town generally and the Police have already used the system to track crime in the Town.



TECHNICAL INFO!

8 x SONY Cameras
Frames per second: 25
1TB Digital Hard Disk System
Constant record on all channels
Infra red Nightvision and 
Daytime colour auto selection UPDATE!!!

We are constanfly playing with 
the system toincrease its 
coverage and ability.

More News soon!

Example night views!

These are photos of the screen - not screen shots and so do not clearly represent the quality of the actual system or the full areas it covers