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1 results foundAuthor: Belfast Drug and Alcohol Working Group Title: Camera's in Beeld: Een beoordeling van cameratoezicht in Bergen op Zoom en Roosendaal (Camera in View: A review of camera surveillance in Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal) Summary: Preface More than ten years ago the municipalities of Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal started camera surveillance. In Roosendaal this happens in connection with drug nuisance and nightlife-related nuisance. In Bergen op Zoom, the camera surveillance was initially used for nightlife-related nuisance and nightlife violence. Because of the success it finds there 2005/2006 an expansion takes place in which signaling and tackling drug-related problems becomes an important goal. At that time it was also agreed that an evaluation would take place after five years. Discuss in this report we summarize the results of this evaluation. The reader can, if desired, further inform d.m.v. a number of in-depth documents to which this report refers to. A brief outline of the problem The entertainment centers in both municipalities attract many visitors during the weekends. That works accompanied by the necessary entertainment-related nuisance and nightlife violence. Both municipalities also have to deal with a large stream of foreign drug tourists who visit one of the eight coffee shops in Bergen op Zoom or Roosendaal. This too accompanied by all kinds of drug-related nuisances, vandalism and crime. In this context, the decision is made to proceed with the use of camera surveillance. Get this the police 'extra eyes' on the street, allowing for quicker and more effective intervention in case of nuisance, vandalism, nightlife or other forms of crime. Camera surveillance is seen as an aid for the police on the street. What exactly does the camera project entail? The municipality of Roosendaal is about sixteen cameras. For the municipality of Bergen at Zoom there are considerably more. In three phases, the number of cameras in this municipality gradually expanded to twenty-nine cameras. This expansion is partly due to the successful decrease in the number of incidents (by more than 30%) and the halving of the number of violent incidents after the first series of cameras has been installed. Both the police (Courage), district management, as local government, but certainly also the residents have therefore insisted on this further expansion. Most of the cameras in both municipalities are placed on strategic places in the city center. They cover the entertainment area, with special attention to the at that time active coffeeshops. In addition, cameras were placed on so-called incidental hotspots. These are locations where illegal street trade takes place, or where facilities that focus on youth and related nuisance. In the context of the latter, Roosendaal recently decided to extend its camera surveillance with movable cameras in the Langdon district (see below). Structure An independent research consortium 6 was asked to analyze how camera surveillance functions in both municipalities and - in view of the aforementioned changes - which adjustments are necessary. A number of issues are looked at. These also form the successive paragraphs of this report: Part 1: Actual functioning of the cameras Are cameras optimally used? Do you follow the prescribed protocols? In short: Are there any issues that can be improved around the actual use of current cameras? Part 2: Effects of camera surveillance First of all, the effects can be measured by looking at the extent to which camera surveillance is carried out contributes to the maintenance of public order. How often do camera images lead to police action and possibly a detention? Are camera images used for the detection? The effects can also be measured by the degree to which camera surveillance contributes to the feeling of security for residents, nightlife audiences and / or entrepreneurs in both municipalities. Do they feel safer through camera surveillance? Part 3: Update camera surveillance Does the camera surveillance function optimally? In other words, the most important locations are clearly shown, or adjustments are necessary as a result of a changed security image? In part 3 we make proposals for an update of the camera surveillance in Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal. Part 4: Camera surveillance in a broader perspective To what extent does the current camera surveillance of Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal fit in the broader perspective of national developments and experiences on administrative and legal level? Part 5: The balance What are the benefits of this policy? And in which areas is the finger still on the wrist? Here we also make a proposal to adjust the current camera surveillance. Someone who wants to limit himself to the main lines will suffice reading this last part. Details: Arnhem, Netherlands: Bureau Beke, 2012. 41p. Source: Internet Resource (in Dutch): Accessed January 12, 2019 at: https://www.loketgezondleven.nl/sites/default/files/Cameras_in_beeld_Evaluatie_Bergen_op_Zoom_en_Roosendaal_def.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Netherlands URL: https://www.loketgezondleven.nl/sites/default/files/Cameras_in_beeld_Evaluatie_Bergen_op_Zoom_en_Roosendaal_def.pdf Shelf Number: 154086 Keywords: Camera Images Camera Surveillance Drug Dealing Drug Tourism Law Enforcement Netherlands Night-Life |