Cameras in Mallow will monitor licence plates of suspect gang vehicles

Gangs of criminals from Dublin and Limerick which have targeted rural areas of Cork will now be tracked by new CCTV technology which is being installed in the town of Macroom.

It has been revealed that two of the 17 CCTV cameras currently being installed in the town will be equipped with Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) technology.

All the cameras will be monitored by gardaí in Macroom station, but the ANPR ones will set off a buzzer in the station immediately alerting gardaí to suspect vehicles which have just passed by.