County Council to examine if it should take control of towns' CCTV three years after equipment was bought

Cork County Council is about to appoint consultants who will see if it is feasible for it to take control of all monitoring of existing and new community CCTV systems in towns and villages in its jurisdiction.

Council chief executive Tim Lucey made the announcement after a number of councillors expressed anger that, despite state-of-the-art equipment being purchased for some towns, their CCTV remained inoperable because of data protection issues.