This webpage explains how you can find out what information, if any, is held about you on the Council’s Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) system.

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, individuals have a right to see CCTV pictures if they are the subject. To make a request, you need to:

• Fill out a CCTV Subject Access Request Form
• Pay a £10 fee
• Prove your identity (and that of any representative acting on your behalf)
• Supply a letter of authorisation if you use a representative to make the request for you

Once we have received the completed form, relevant identification and the fee, it will take us a maximum of 40 calendar days to get back to you with an answer.

It is important that we do not compromise anyone else’s privacy, so you will only be able to view CCTV footage that does not contain images of third parties or images that would enable you to identify other people (e.g. car registration details). Images of other subjects would need to be edited or blanked out to make sure no one else can be identified. This process is costly, and one which the Council has the right to refuse to undertake if the costs are disproportionate. Alternatively, the costs may be passed on to the person who has made the request.

The Council is also entitled to deny access to information in certain cases under the Data Protection Act, specifically where the information may be held for:

• the prevention and detection of crime
• the apprehension and prosecution of offenders

and where giving you the evidence may prejudice either of these purposes.

The viewing will take place in the Civic Centre – not in the Monitoring Centre – and the recording will only be played to the person who made the request.

You are also entitled to have a copy of the recording if it will not become part of a live criminal investigation, civil proceedings or a complaint.

Download the CCTV Subject Access Request Form 80Kb PDF