Edinburgh city council plans to triple the number of closed-circuit surveillance cameras in the east of the city near the Omni centre.

Edinburgh City Council plans to triple the number of closed-circuit
surveillance cameras in the east of the city near the Omni centre.

Originally the area was served by a single camera that was on Picardy
Place and commanded a view of the surrounding streets; however it had
to be disconnected due to the ongoing installation of the city's new
tram system.

Three new cameras will be installed to recreate views to cover Leith
Walk, Leith Street, Broughton Place, Queen Street and Picardy Place.
Ross Neill, Operations manager of CCTV at the council, insists that
the increased number of cameras is necessary only due to recreate the
view that will be lost when the tram is installed and not due to any
increase in suspicious activity.

He said: "If it had been viable to keep the original camera in place
then there would be no requirement to install further cameras."
In the last year, 40 new CCTV cameras have been introduced to the city
bringing the total up to over 830.

However, Neill told Student that the majority of the new cameras are
in the outlying areas of the city rather than the centre, where the
number of cameras has remained fairly consistent for the last few
years.

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