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From 1 April 2023, the new North Yorkshire Council replaced the borough council in Scarborough.
Introduction
The Scarborough Borough Council CCTV department monitor the public space CCTV system for Scarborough, Whitby and Filey. This scheme is funded by Scarborough Borough Council.
The Scarborough Borough Council CCTV department monitor the public space CCTV system for Malton, Norton and Pickering. This scheme is funded by Ryedale Cameras in Action who pay a fee to the council.
The Scarborough Borough Council CCTV department works in partnership with North Yorkshire Police and holds a TEA2 sub licence which enables CCTV operators to communicate with the North Yorkshire Police Force Control Room and individual officers.
The Scarborough Borough Council CCTV department works in partnership with the Scarborough Shop Watch and Pub Watch schemes and the Whitby Pub Watch Scheme, communicating with members of all three via a dedicated radio system. The Scarborough Borough Council CCTV department Senior Operator attends the meetings of all three groups to ensure that good working relationships are maintained.
The Scarborough Borough Council CCTV department works with the Scarborough Borough Council Community Impact team and provides information and intelligence on a daily basis through the sharing of a CCTV Incident Database.
Management structure
- Head of Customers, Communities and Partnerships
- Community Safety and Safeguarding Manager
- Senior CCTV Operator
- four full time operators working 37 hours per week
- three part-time operators working 35 hours, 25 hours and 20 hours per week
Camera network
The CCTV department monitors a total of 266 public space CCTV cameras in the following locations:
- Dean Road depot: 20
- Filey: 15
- Hunmanby: 6
- Malton: 31
- Open air theatre: 19
- Pickering: 11
- Recycling: 2
- Scarborough Borough Council Customer First: 14
- Scarborough and Eastfield: 76
- Scarborough indoor market: 26
- Spa underground car park: 15
- Whitby: 31
CCTV statistics
Most frequently occurring incidents that affect communities
- read the most frequently occurring incidents that affected communities in 2022 (xlsx / 15 KB)
- read the most frequently occurring incidents that affected communities in 2021 by location (xlsx / 9 KB)
- read the most frequently occurring incidents that affected communities in 2022 by location (xlsx / 9 KB)
Comparison of incidents between 2022 and 2021
Percentages are only shown for Scarborough and Whitby due to relatively low figures for Filey, Malton and Norton and Pickering:
Incidents, arrests, reviews requested and evidence provided by location
- read incidents in Filey (xlsx / 9 KB)
- read incidents in Malton and Norton (xlsx / 9 KB)
- read incidents in Pickering (xlsx / 9 KB)
- read incidents in Scarborough (xlsx / 9 KB)
- read incidents in Whitby (xlsx / 9 KB)
Partnership working – statistics showing parties reporting incidents to CCTV and logged in the CCTV database
Camera faults and downtime
During the year of 2022 the whole scheme, Scarborough, Whitby, Filey, Pickering, Malton and Norton had 283 incidents of cameras not being in service due to faults and breakdowns. This resulted in 17,072 hours of downtime.
Scarborough Borough Council CCTV plans for 2023
The Scarborough Borough Council CCTV control room is due for a complete upgrade in March 2023.
This will include the replacement of all Vision Networks Recorders (VNRs), wall monitors, spot monitors, camera controls and furniture. This upgrade will be followed with the replacement of 17 old Scarborough analogue Pan Tilt Zoom cameras with high quality digital Pan Tilt Zoom cameras. In addition to this a number of Scarborough town centre Pan Tilt Zoom cameras will be complimented with new fixed digital cameras, providing more coverage to help in the aims of the scheme, which is to help detect and deter criminal activity and anti-social behaviour and make people working, trading and visiting the town centre feel safer.