The target area will also include coverage of the site of the Stephen Lawrence Memorial. Area suffers from high levels of vehicle crime, shoplifting, burglary, assault and criminal damage SRB funding aimed at tackling social exclusion, including supporting racial minorities through development of a more harmonious community. The Stephen Lawrence memorial was covered by a dummy CCTV camera, and then defaced. Main crime problems in both are assault, criminal damage and robbery. Main crime problems are car crime, assaults, robbery, drugs and sex offences.
Help points are to be installed financed from other funding mentioned above.
This bid is for 8 CCTV cameras to extend the existing system to cover 'hot spots' including two town centre car parks, main commuter routes, transport links and the bus garage area. Problems include vehicle crime, theft and assault. The bid is for a comprehensive network of 34 permanently located CCTV surveillance cameras, deployed at strategic positions in Crystal Palace, Penge, Anerley, West Norwood and Upper Norwood to provide targeted visual information to existing Council control room and associated Police divisional command centres. The bid claims to provide an innovative community based solution to identified crime problems in a residential and business community bordered by three Borough Councils, and complements a wide range of on-going regeneration and Police initiatives in the area. This bid covers the streets in Brixton town centre immediately leading off from Brixton Road where the existing CCTV system is located.