CCTV installed near college ahead of Freshers’ Week festivities

Three Garda CCTV cameras have been installed around Cork’s university quarter as part of a wider crackdown on antisocial behaviour.

The cameras, positioned at strategic locations around University College Cork, are linked to the city’s wider bank of some 30 Garda CCTV cameras monitored around the clock by gardaí based in the control room at Anglesea St Garda Station.

The new system, which can be extended, has gone live ahead of the Freshers’ Week celebrations, and just weeks after the closure of nearby Barrack St Garda Station, from where a lot of the policing of UCC’s environs was co-ordinated.