A council has issued a warning to would-be fly-tippers that they will be being watched thanks to the purchase of a new state-of-the-art portable CCTV camera that will be used around the borough to catch offenders.
Gedling Borough Council’s new rapid deployment camera is weatherproof and has a motion detector and will be placed in areas known to be fly-tipping areas, where normal CCTV does not operate.
As well as the camera, two new neighbourhood warden vans will be used to raise the awareness of the warden’s patrols in an attempt to catch and prosecute fly-tippers.
Earlier this year, a Gedling Borough Council prosecution hit the national headlines when a man caught fly-tipping claimed in court that it was his imaginary identical twin who fly-tipped.
The story was printed in many of the national papers and despite the offender’s best efforts to evade justice he was found guilty and sentenced to wear an electronic tag and fined £800.
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Councillor David Ellis, Portfolio Holder for Public Protection said: “We are determined to keep the borough a pleasant and tidy place in which to live. Residents expect us to deal with fly-tipping.
“This new camera will aid our wardens in catching offenders by placing them where we know there are serial occurrences of fly-tipping. Our advice to anyone thinking about fly-tipping is to not bother as we will be watching. Anyone who does and is caught will be prosecuted by the council with full intent.”
