Alex

Taken from this weeks HT, this is not good news but great for the criminals

CRIME-fighting CCTV in the county is under threat as cuts of £50,000 in the next year will see a reduction in live monitoring.

Leominster town councillors were told at a council meeting last week that the monitoring hours for CCTV across the county are to be slashed down to almost half.

According to Councillor Peter Ellis – who has been liaising with Herefordshire Council about the future provision of CCTV in the county – the current monitoring hours will be cut from 127 hours a week to 69.

This means that although the cameras will continue to roll consistently, there will not always be someone watching – sparking fears that some crimes could go undetected.

Funding from Herefordshire Council is to be reduced by £50,000 in 2013/2014 and then a further £32,000 in 2014/2015.

Debbie Stringer, commissioning officer for CCTV, said the reduction for this year will be covered through funding reserves.

“Whereas the system will continue to record 24 hours, seven days a week, there is a risk that the level of real-time footage monitoring could be affected,†she said.

But additional funding has come from an “old friendâ€. West Mercia’s Police and Crime Commissioner Bill Longmore has applied to put an additional £50,000 towards the cost of running CCTV in the county.

And Herefordshire councillor Peter McCall said that despite the cuts, CCTV – which costs Leominster Town Council £10,000 a year – is “still good value for moneyâ€, adding that the time it saves is “phenomenalâ€.

He added that the footage can still be replayed to help find an offender.

Proposals will be implemented from April, subject to negotiations with town councils.

A good laugh and a curry is mind kind of evening, might just go to see Andy Parsons he is quailty 

I thought the aim of the Enterprise Zone was to attract businesses which will create thousands of jobs. 

I think it is also to attract tourists and people in general too.

Well you will love this then, I use a small van for work and when I bought it the price on the forecourt was £4800 +VAT, now when i sold it I am not VAT registered so therefore I cannot charge VAT.

But the next person, if they are VAT registered or if it sells at auction will charge VAT each and every time this van is sold which could be 4 - 5 times in its life, so how much are the Government making just from vans alone!

I actually had planned something like that myself - a city wide, free for all forum, I have a couple of domains lined up. However, after seeing how much effort Colin puts into this site I might just have to curtail that a bit. Maybe turn it into a parody site :P

I think Colin was thinking about extending the forums to cover all of Hereford sometime ago, I think if he did that it would be really good.

Welcome aboard you are very welcome here.

Welcome to Belmont Voice, I hope to see you all here as regulars. We do not always agree with each other but we seem to have a mutual respect for one another which is good.

No flies on you Colin I have read threw the topics from back in 2011 and to be fair you are right.

I agree with you bobby, the mayor will not be getting my vote next time so Mr Edwards need not bother knocking on my door.

At my request Amey officers went to Haywood Lane again this moring to look for missing duck sign. It was found that the post was not damaged, but the sign was not found, it is thought someone probably removed the sign as a souvenir because of its novelty factor. I have now asked for a replacement and have been given a works number 168813, I will check in the next few days of the progress of a replacement sign.

Almost 3 months on and it has still not been replaced, drove past this afternoon

Thank you. Well is that it? Whats all the bloody fuss about omg have they really got nothing better to do?

Which topic is being referred to here?

I think anyone who gives up their time to help the community needs recognition. Keep up the good work that you are doing Councillor

At my request Amey officers went to Haywood Lane again this moring to look for missing duck sign. It was found that the post was not damaged, but the sign was not found, it is thought someone probably removed the sign as a souvenir because of its novelty factor. I have now asked for a replacement and have been given a works number 168813, I will check in the next few days of the progress of a replacement sign.

Yes I noticed it had gone the other day when I drove passed. Keep up the good work Councillor Vaughan-Powell

How did it get under the iron bridge on the Belmont Road? must of been very close

Ignore it.

Always good to have new members active, hope to see you involved in various debates. It's a useful forum.

Hi Alex!

 

Wow!....thank you so much for replying! We were beginning to think that we were going mad and were the only ones who are hearing it! Some sanity regained! Lol

It does sound like a generator. Whatever it is, its annoying and stressing to live with!

 

Do you know if they've complained to anyone about it?

You welcome. I am not sure, I will ask him when I next see him but I am sure he did complain to the Store, not sure what the end result was though.

Hello CV5 and welcome to BV. My best friend lives opposite Tesco more or less and he has heard this noise, I think it is some sort of generator or perhaps an outside refridgerator.

That is a good write up again this week Colin.   

Excellent well done Colin, The DJ on the last clip summed it up superbly.

I notice that the signature list is growning, now up to 50 signatures, well done keep up the good work.

You would not get away with this is some countries, it's called "Entrapment"

Is this what Roger already posted here? http://belmontvoice.co.uk/index.php?/topic/764-please-sign-this-petition-turn-off-lights-at-asda-hereford/

All signed and shared with my friends