CCTV camera to watch Triangle in Bournemouth

1:00pm Saturday 1st September 2012 in News By Melanie Vass

MONITORED: The Triangle, Bournemouth MONITORED: The Triangle, Bournemouth

A PERMANENT CCTV camera is to be installed at Bournemouth Triangle to help tackle anti-social behaviour.

The decision to spend £10,000 extending the town centre’s CCTV network follows the success of a mobile camera used at St Michael’s Road and Commercial Road.

In three months, the mobile camera captured 34 incidents including street drinking, shoplifting, assaults, drug taking and general rowdy and nuisance behaviour. This footage was used to secure five convictions.

Cllr David Smith, town centre councillor and cabinet member for communities, said: “The mobile camera has been really effective in this area helping to reduce the problems in this part of town. It makes sense to install a permanent camera in this location as this area is increasingly being used for public and family events and it is important that there is adequate CCTV in place to improve community safety.”

The permanent camera will be installed next month and linked up to the town’s CCTV network.

Nigel Hedges, president of Bournemouth’s chamber of trade, said: “All towns have to ensure that they provide a safe environment for everybody, whether they are visitors, residents and people going out and enjoying themselves.

“Although all of us are slightly nervous of being spied on, CCTV is proven to boost security and help authorities act effectively against people who choose to ignore society’s rules.

“From a trade point of view, we have to say that it will help making a growing area safer and more successful.”

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fedupwithfedupjobsworths says...
1:14pm Sat 1 Sep 12

I hope it will cover the Big Issue sellers who stand on the corner by the Library and hassle everyone who walks past. I am fed up of having to say no thank you up to six times a day to him and the one that stands at the bottom of Richmond Hill. If you ignore them and don't say no thanks you may get the response "Have a good afternoon you ignorant f****** c***" as I did the other week. Very nice !

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pete woodley says...
1:21pm Sat 1 Sep 12

If you do not give they get really nasty, and do use the words mentioned,the one outside waitrose in winton gets physically violent,WHY do the police do nothing ?.

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elite50 says...
1:44pm Sat 1 Sep 12

All that you have to say to these creeps is "When was the last time that I interfered in YOUR life"?
If that does not work, ask for his name and badge no. and ask him if he would like to lose his licence.
Just watch him scuttle for cover!

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muscliffman says...
1:44pm Sat 1 Sep 12

I do hope this CCTV system is good, it might have captured the people who stole the Triangle sitting area and put cars back there, the careless driver who impossibly parked a bus from a defunct Company in the pedestrian area outside the Library, and the vandals that painted all the former Bus Stops back onto the pavements - and the sound of a 1920's tram coming down Poole Hill - presumably.
I know Dr. Who returns to TV tonight but the Echo have certainly beaten him to it with time travel in the pic published here! Wonder why the Police Box is missing?

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pete woodley says...
1:56pm Sat 1 Sep 12

It is no good complaining to Big Issues office they stick by their sellers as its business first.And once again the police and council do not want to bother.

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mpdor says...
2:01pm Sat 1 Sep 12

I am just amazed that there is not a camera already there, i would have thought that in an an area as busy as the triangle that a camera would have been installed years ago

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MrPitiful says...
2:03pm Sat 1 Sep 12

I wonder if it will be used to sort out all the mini-cab drivers who illegally, dangerously & stupidly park their vehicles on the double-yellow lined corner & junction outside the taxi office?
Some of them are parked there for long periods and get away with it.N tickets, no warnings etc. Unlike us local residents who get hit with £40 fines if we park outside our own houses.

An accident waiting to happen - especially with their customers just opening the doors without checking for oncoming traffic.

The cameras could also easily capture the traffic wardens who walk straight past them without enforcing the parking restrictions, instead choosing to take advantage of the easier pickings of the local residents or people who pull over for a minute or two to use the shops in the Triangle.

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Say-it-how-it-is says...
2:04pm Sat 1 Sep 12

mpdor wrote:
I am just amazed that there is not a camera already there, i would have thought that in an an area as busy as the triangle that a camera would have been installed years ago
Ok, well who's going to pay for that. They don't come free. Maybe the council didn't have the money. Not all towns have CCTV. It's not cheap to buy and then install.

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TheDistrict says...
2:37pm Sat 1 Sep 12

Perhaps the fitting of CCTV cameras in areas where the student population is overwhelming could be fitted so that the antics they get up to can be recorded and give proof, which normally there is none of. It could be paid for by the landlords of the HMOs and the Bournemouth Universitys.

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spooki says...
5:15pm Sat 1 Sep 12

What's the point of installing these cameras when there has to be someone manning them to supposedly take action when needed and, more importantly, when the pictures they get back are nothing but some kind of 3D cross-your-eyes type picture that has no detail whatsoever and can't be used as evicence of something going on?

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spooki says...
5:17pm Sat 1 Sep 12

D'oh! 'Evidence' not 'evicence' ruddy spell checker

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Dibby1966 says...
5:41pm Sat 1 Sep 12

What is all this nonsense about CCtv cameras helping in "making a growing area safer and more successful"? If the mobile camera captured 34 incidents, but only 5 convictions were made then it hasn't been that effective. It will not prevent crimes from being committed in the first place. What is needed is a more robust police presence in the troubled areas. The state should not be able to spy on its citizens at will, as should the state become more malign the potential for abuse is obvious.

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pete woodley says...
5:51pm Sat 1 Sep 12

CCTV cameras are only as good as the operator is,the town hall once had a controller who fell asleep,and nearly lost the town mace.In any case,a lot of the time the police take offenders to court,only for judges like Jarvis,and some others,to let them go scot free.

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madras says...
8:09pm Sat 1 Sep 12

Make it a web cam - if I found myself awake in the wee small hours of a Sat / Sun morning it would make for entertaining viewing, I'm sure!

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The Renegade Master says...
8:56pm Sat 1 Sep 12

If anyone is verbally abused or threatened by a Big Issue seller you should report it to the Police. If they keep getting reported they will be forced to move on.
I remember many years ago I used to work in the High Street in Poole and without fail every day I would be approached by those Scientology morons who used to lurk there. I politely asked this chap one day when I'd had enough to kindly not keep stopping me and guess what? The next day he approached me again! I couldn't believe it, so I grabbed him by the collar and said something along the lines of if he did it again I would shove his clipboard so far up a certain orifice he wouldn't c**p for a week. He never stopped me again!

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Hobad1 says...
10:22pm Sat 1 Sep 12

elite50 wrote:
All that you have to say to these creeps is "When was the last time that I interfered in YOUR life"?
If that does not work, ask for his name and badge no. and ask him if he would like to lose his licence.
Just watch him scuttle for cover!
Ok buddy, you do what you have just said but video it and put it on youtube so we can all see you being a big man and confronting these `criminals'. But remember to post the video link on here so we can all see you preach what you say.

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Hobad1 says...
10:26pm Sat 1 Sep 12

fedupwithfedupjobswo
rths wrote:
I hope it will cover the Big Issue sellers who stand on the corner by the Library and hassle everyone who walks past. I am fed up of having to say no thank you up to six times a day to him and the one that stands at the bottom of Richmond Hill. If you ignore them and don't say no thanks you may get the response "Have a good afternoon you ignorant f****** c***" as I did the other week. Very nice !
If you dont want to say `no thank you' 6 times a day dont take the same route 6 times a day. Surely there must be more in your life than waling along Richmond Hill all day every day. Also, video them saying "Have a good afternoon you ignorant f****** c***" cos i don't think they ever say that but do think you are making up a load of cr@p.

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ben12341979 says...
10:31pm Sat 1 Sep 12

spooki wrote:
What's the point of installing these cameras when there has to be someone manning them to supposedly take action when needed and, more importantly, when the pictures they get back are nothing but some kind of 3D cross-your-eyes type picture that has no detail whatsoever and can't be used as evicence of something going on?
The cameras are manned by the control room and the images they produce are excellent, they may appear poor when they are blown up 100 times to try and show more detail but apart from that they are like digital cameras, I've worked in a few CCTV control rooms and the image quality has always been excellent.

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pete woodley says...
10:34pm Sat 1 Sep 12

So you are asking people to walk a different route to avoid foul language etc.You reall sound as evil as some of them do.

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Hobad1 says...
10:41pm Sat 1 Sep 12

pete woodley wrote:
So you are asking people to walk a different route to avoid foul language etc.You reall sound as evil as some of them do.
All I'm asking Pete is what i asked before....that you "give us proof of how `physically violent' this big issue seller has been to you." You said it...now back it up with proof....or is it a case of it never happened and you're talking a load of rubbish ?

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pete woodley says...
10:54pm Sat 1 Sep 12

He punched me in the face and i am 77 and disabled.Thats the honest truth,

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Dorset Local says...
2:48am Sun 2 Sep 12

I don't think Hobad1 understands. In respect of a Big Issue seller he says : "He is a normal guy trying to raise funds for a charity he believes in"

Big Issue sellers are allowed to buy so many copies ( different sellers have different quotas ) for half the price that they sell them for. The profit is their own. That's how they afford to live.

Originally the idea was to help people to get on their feet financially but many of them have made it a way of life. Wikipedia tells all :
http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/The_Big_Iss
ue

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pete woodley says...
10:00am Sun 2 Sep 12

Dorset Local,thanks for pointing out that the big issue seller is NOT raising money for charity but for himself,This guy is making a very good living chatting up the elderly and giving out his pitiful stories,then gets into a big car,and goes back to a big house ,he is NOT homeless or destitute.To get at me, he even called me a paedophile in front of people in lidll's when i was shopping with my wife,thats how nasty some of them get,and "jobsworth and elite50 are right.

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Azphreal says...
12:19pm Sun 2 Sep 12

pete woodley if he punched you in the face i am sure you reported it to the police and i am sure he was arrested. Isnt that area covered by CCTV?

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Lord Spring says...
3:49pm Sun 2 Sep 12

Azphreal wrote:
pete woodley if he punched you in the face i am sure you reported it to the police and i am sure he was arrested. Isnt that area covered by CCTV?
CCTV on Peters that face would break the camera

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Hobad1 says...
7:09pm Sun 2 Sep 12

Dorset Local wrote:
I don't think Hobad1 understands. In respect of a Big Issue seller he says : "He is a normal guy trying to raise funds for a charity he believes in" Big Issue sellers are allowed to buy so many copies ( different sellers have different quotas ) for half the price that they sell them for. The profit is their own. That's how they afford to live. Originally the idea was to help people to get on their feet financially but many of them have made it a way of life. Wikipedia tells all : http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Big_Iss ue
Dorset Local says..."Wikipedia tells all : http://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Big_Iss ue"....lol lol LOL. Wikipedia ???!!!! Anybody can put any rubbish on there that they want. Seriously, come back with a proper argument.

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Dorset Local says...
7:24pm Sun 2 Sep 12

Very well. Have a look at the Big Issue website and read this :

"Becoming a Big Issue vendor gives you the opportunity to sell the world’s best known street paper in order to earn some cash."

http://www.bigissue.
org.uk/get-involved/
how-become-vendor

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pete woodley says...
8:30pm Sun 2 Sep 12

Dorset local,Hobad1 is just a wind up best ignored.

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pete woodley says...
9:05pm Sun 2 Sep 12

Lord Spring are you too applying to join the hate pete woodley campaign,i am really getting some right odd members,its either the weather or the full moon,or of course some may be out on day release and not gone back.I am rather surprised at you,as you seemed to be quite normal,but one can never tell.

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Lord Spring says...
10:17pm Sun 2 Sep 12

pete woodley wrote:
Lord Spring are you too applying to join the hate pete woodley campaign,i am really getting some right odd members,its either the weather or the full moon,or of course some may be out on day release and not gone back.I am rather surprised at you,as you seemed to be quite normal,but one can never tell.
It was light heart quip Peter,
Remember the old saying if you cant take a joke dont join the Marines.

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BIGTONE says...
8:09am Mon 3 Sep 12

pete woodley wrote:
CCTV cameras are only as good as the operator is,the town hall once had a controller who fell asleep,and nearly lost the town mace.In any case,a lot of the time the police take offenders to court,only for judges like Jarvis,and some others,to let them go scot free.
Did he used to sell radio's?

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pete woodley says...
8:56am Mon 3 Sep 12

I know lord spring,so was mine.Hobad1 is different he is having ago at everyone,he does not know me, but makes childish comments,so must be a bit immature.Most people that know me also know i can defend myself.I know that the big issue thug outside waitrose hit me,and my wife was with me,but if i had hit him back,i would have been as bad as him.

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Telscombe Cliffy says...
9:43am Mon 3 Sep 12

Giisshhoooo!

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pete woodley says...
9:57am Mon 3 Sep 12

Bless you.

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Thepinkhouse says...
7:19pm Tue 4 Sep 12

I would have respect for the Big Issue sellers IF I believed they were trying to make a better life for themselves. Sadly, the ones I have seen in close proximity are only looking for their next drug deal. I am living in an area (that is once again), inundated with the people that attempt to persuade us that they are trying to help themselves. I would love to believe in their ethos, but sadly, seeing their actions, I can only see them on a slippery slope.

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