Patent ID: 8164686

Claim:
A surveillance television camera including a camera base which is mounted on an installation surface and to which the surveillance television camera is mounted and a dome cover which is detachably attachable to the camera base, the surveillance television camera comprising: a locking device including a movable locking member provided on the camera base and an elastic member biasing the movable locking member toward a direction of a joint surface of the movable locking member to the dome cover, wherein: the camera base has a joint surface relative to the dome cover; the dome cover has a fitting recess formed in the joint surface thereof; when the joint surfaces of the camera base and the dome cover are joined together so that the dome cover is turned circumferentially thereby to be attached to the camera base, the movable locking member is fitted into the fitting recess of the dome cover by a biasing force of the elastic member, and the locking device includes a slide lever formed on a side of the movable locking member, and the slide lever is manually operable near an outer surface of the camera base.