Decision details

We have received notification that Phil Holmes, Director of Adults, Health and Wellbeing supports the investment proposal of £64K to employ an NRT/CCTV Officer for a period of 2 years.

This role will sit within the Neighbourhood Response Team, but will be dedicated to improving intelligence gathering to capture CCTV evidence from identified Crime and Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) hotspots, working closely with locality leads and Stronger Communities Managers. The role also links to the new Doncaster CCTV Strategy and builds on the success of our programme of investment and re-structure of CCTV monitoring.
• The expanded network of CCTV has placed increased demands on the CCTV / Reassurance theme manager and field technician.
• This proposal will establish a field based officer, who is able to proactively gather CCTV evidence from identified crime and ASB hotspots.

They will work closely with the CCTV manager and field technician and provide greater resilience when these staff are on leave or engaged on existing CCTV projects.

• The role will also liaise closely with locality leads and Stronger Communities Managers to use intelligence to download evidence from the existing network of cameras for urgent cases, speeding up criminal justice outcomes and ASB interventions.
• At the moment, we have key locations where this role can step in to support local enforcement plans, as we know the CCTV footage will be of greatest benefit to local partners. Being highly mobile, the role can deploy quickly to key locations.
• Full training and equipment will be provided and we seek to fund the post for a period of two years, to provide proof of concept and in the interim explore opportunities for longer term funding.
• This proposal complements other improvements we have put forward, designed to speed up CCTV downloads, improve intelligence and respond to urgent installation requests.
• Based upon the cost of a grade 7 NRT officer, we estimate the total costs of the proposal to be £64k over two years and includes £2k for the purchase of a dedicated and specialist laptop.

To approve the receipt of the investment proposal to assist the implementation of the CCTV Strategy. A Dedicated Role to Improve Intelligence Gathering and Recovery of CCTV Evidence
- Neighbourhood response Team (NRT)/CCTV Officer for a period of 2 years.

ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS CONSIDERED AND REJECTED

Option 1: Do Nothing
This is not viewed as a viable option, as without the required approval to use the improvement proposal funding this way we would not be able to improve resilience to meet the rising demand for reviewing, downloading and CCTV requests. We would not be able to enhance intelligence gathering using CCTV proactively in identified crime and ASB hot spot locations and meet the requirements of key elements of the CCTV Strategy.

Option 2: Seek approval to use the investment proposal funding to recruit a NRT/CCTV Officer dedicated to improve intelligence gathering and recovery of CCTV evidence.

This option would provide the following benefits