Rayleigh Town Council Community Safety Group Pushes Forward With CCTV Project

November 2, 2019 in News

This week, CCTV experts from Southend Borough Council, will be meeting with myself and two other members of Rayleigh Town Councils community safety group, following our recent visit to their control room. This meeting will be look further at the feasibility, scope and costs of utilising SBC as a CCTV partner before we are able to make recommendations back to the group who will ultimately pass our findings back to Rayleigh Town Council full council to make a decision on CCTV in Rayleigh. I'll provide more updates later in the week.

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James Newport

Essex County Councillor for Rayleigh North, Rochford District Councillor for Downhall & Rawreth and Rayleigh Town Councillor for Sweyne.