The City of Salford in England’s northwest is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester and includes Salford itself as well as the towns of Eccles, Swinton and Pendlebury, Walkden, and Irlam. More than 218,000 people live in the City, and Salford City Council and its partners fund 130 public space CCTV cameras that cover eight neighbourhoods.
The CCTV cameras are monitored at a central control room located at Salford Civic Centre. This control room is linked to police radios so staff is aware of incidents, missing people, or people wanted for questioning, and can easily pass intelligence to the police. Information provided by the council’s CCTV team helped police arrest 200 people last year.
