Subject Access
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
This webpage was updated on
1/3/2012