Our CCTV system covers most of the city centre and all of the main car parks. We also have some cameras located in residential areas and monitor cameras in the District Hospital.

There are 59 cameras in all and we operate a monitoring system 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from a purpose built monitoring room located within the North Yorkshire Police Divisional Headquarters. Some of the cameras are also recorded 24/7 to help us monitor crime hot spots.

Our CCTV operator work to a strict code of practice and abide by procedures laid out in an operations manual.

The monitoring room is directly linked to the police control room and has radio links with police officers on the ground, our parking attendants, store detectives in the city centre and public house door staff.

Access to the system is strictly controlled and access to any recordings is made only available to police officers with valid justification or to a member of the public under very rigid criteria. We do not release recorded images to the media.