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Mon 08 Aug 2008CCTV 'not effective' in preventing drug-dealing
CCTV cameras have proved ineffective in preventing or detecting crimes including drug-dealing, graffiti and illegal dumping, Dublin City Council senior management has said.
The council has secured just 12 prosecutions using CCTV footage this year. All of these were for illegal dumping, but in all cases it was because a car registration had been caught on camera and not the culprit illegally dumping rubbish.
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