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Originally Posted by Neil

The SONT will not be very white - this can cause flickering on some CCTV cameras. the ones the neighbourhood watch have are probably not very good either. I thought you had to put up signs stating that you were recording the public anyway.

You are correct there with the lighting colour, but at the lux levels indicated it will not help the CCTV cameras at all, the distance involved is approx 100+metres, the police could not identify someone at 6 metres. As for the signs there is one on the first lamp on park lane/rhyddings street corner and one at fielding lane end.Regarding using CCTV to monitor the "public", there was a note in the police newsletter "IN touch issue 3 March 05" reminding people with CCTV cameras that these should be focused on their own property, and if the cameras were aimed at anything other than the owners property, then several provisions under the Data Protection Act apply. Another point worth noting, all the CCTV cameras in use are colour, these are no good at night unless the lighting levels are very good, its normal for night time cameras to be mono-chrome and use IR lighting. The RPNHW are funding the purchase of the column and lantern, but who is paying for the installation of cables etc. The contractors have been on site now for 2/3 days and have not yet finished laying the duct, the cable is still to be installed, could some of the money be coming from the Area Councils budget I wonder, I would think the final cost will be somewhere in the region of £3000/£4000. What a waste of tax payers money.When the light was only granted temporary planning permission for a period of 12 months. The attitude of one of our local Cllr's "If it does'nt work we can always switch it off"