Someone, somewhere, is always watching.
That is the message from Sussex Police as 24 hours a day, seven days a week, a dedicated team flick through the footage from nearly 400 cameras monitoring public places across the county.
From city centres to village halls, chances are there will be a camera keeping watch on your every move.
But at a cost of £1.3 million a year, is it worth it?
For the first time, The Argus can reveal the locations of all the cameras monitored by Sussex Police thanks to a request made under the Freedom of Information Act.
Nick Pickles, director of civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch, said: “In too many towns we now have a CCTV camera on every street corner yet never see a police officer there.
“The public are treated as suspects to be monitored by faceless council officials, yet we are no safer walking the streets as a result.
“It’s time people started asking what it is about CCTV that so excites local authorities and why they seem so keen to watch us.”
Despite the fears from civil liberty campaigners, police still remain committed to the technology.
According to the latest list obtained by The Argus from Sussex Police, there are 393 in the county.
According to the force, in 2011/12 staff monitored 43,360 incidents with the technology.
'Value for money'
The £605,000 costs of installing and running the equipment in Sussex is shared by local councils and Sussex Police.
Cameras are paid for by councils, usually out of section 106 contributions which are asked for from developers when they get planning permission.
However, the £670,000 a year spent on staff is billed to Sussex Police.
The total cost to the taxpayer works out at less than £1 per person a year for the county’s 1.6 million residents.
Inspector Ian Byford, who oversees the team at Sussex Police, said this “definitely represented value for money”.
Despite new technology, such as body cameras, he maintained that CCTV was here to stay.
He added: “CCTV has become a part of society and I think people, particularly young people when they are out and about, welcome them.
“It’s no secret where they are. When we do get complaints, it’s usually about someone installing cameras on private land, such as looking into people’s gardens.
“I do not think we will see that number change drastically in the next couple of years.
“We work with local authorities and local residents.
“For every couple that Chichester take down there is a new estate built up in Crawley.”
Strict guidelines
Insp Byford oversees a team of about 18 people in two control centres, Brighton and Haywards Heath, which monitor the footage all day, every day.
They operate two main things: reactive, where they tune into the radio to help officers with live incidents; and proactive, where they trail through past recordings to help with inquiries.
All staff have to sign up to strict data protection guidelines and a code of practice while the force itself is covered by human rights and Government legislation.
Insp Byford added lay visitors could visit the centre at any point to inspect and make sure objectives were being upheld.
In the last three months police have had operators locate stolen property in vehicles, track suspected drug dealers, track robbers, and spot youths in possession of BB guns while looking at footage.
Plus research by CCTV User Group showed that of the three forensic investigation disciplines, which includes DNA and fingerprints, it was by far the cheapest.
But is this enough justification?
Fear of crime
Councillor Ben Duncan, a member of the Sussex Police and Crime Panel, said: “The important thing for communities is not so much reducing actual crime levels but reducing the fear of crime.
“It’s that which causes people to stay in their homes.
“We need to have ways to keep people safe but what people really want to see to make communities safer is a uniformed presence. We do not need any more cameras. We have to get some of our privacy back a little bit.”
Dave Murtagh, who lives in Moulsecoomb Way, Brighton, said he was surprised to hear there were nine cameras monitoring Moulsecoomb estate.
However, he did say he was asking officials to consider installing a camera at the top of his road.
Mr Murtagh said: “I do not actually buy into all these Big Brother thoughts.
“One of the reasons we want an extra one is as a deterrent.
I have been to the control room and I not sure how good they are at solving crimes as there are so many cameras and they are not always pointing the right way.”
The cameras and their locations:
Area Location
BATTLE High Street / Lower lake - Chequers Inn
BATTLE High Street - 1066 PH
BATTLE High Street - Fire Station
BEXHILL Cantelupe Road
BEXHILL Channel View Road
BEXHILL Devonshire Road
BEXHILL Sackville Road
BEXHILL Town Hall Square
BOGNOR REGIS Railway Station
BOGNOR REGIS London Road / Station Road
BOGNOR REGIS Queensway / Cresent Road
BOGNOR REGIS Station Road / Lyon Street
BOGNOR REGIS High Street / London Road
BOGNOR REGIS Queensway
BOGNOR REGIS The Esplanade / The Steyne
BOGNOR REGIS The Pier
BOGNOR REGIS The Esplanade opp Regis Centre
BOGNOR REGIS The Esplanade / Gloucester Road
BOGNOR REGIS Butlins RA
BOGNOR REGIS Sea Road / Bognor Road Felpham
BOGNOR REGIS Butlins
BOSHAM Bosham Car Park
BRIGHTON & HOVE Western Road / Brunswick Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Esplanade / Lansdowne Place
BRIGHTON & HOVE Western Road / Holland Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Church Road / The Drive
BRIGHTON & HOVE Church Road / George Street
BRIGHTON & HOVE Blatchington Road / George Street
BRIGHTON & HOVE King Alfred / St Aubyns
BRIGHTON & HOVE Church Road / Sackville Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE King Alfred Centre / Esplanade
BRIGHTON & HOVE Esplanade / Sackville Gardens
BRIGHTON & HOVE Portland Road / Scott Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Esplanade / Wish Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Kingsway / Station Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Station Road / Boundary Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Sation Road / Portland Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Western Road / Norfolk Square
BRIGHTON & HOVE Haddington Close
BRIGHTON & HOVE Church Road / Palmeira Square
BRIGHTON & HOVE Hangleton Road (The "Grenadier PH")
BRIGHTON & HOVE Clock Tower
BRIGHTON & HOVE Queens Road / Railway Station
BRIGHTON & HOVE Palace Pier
BRIGHTON & HOVE Kings Road / West Street
BRIGHTON & HOVE Russell Road / Cannon Place
BRIGHTON & HOVE Bond Street / North Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Preston Street / Western Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Churchill Square / Western Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Duke Street
BRIGHTON & HOVE Market Street
BRIGHTON & HOVE East Street
BRIGHTON & HOVE Gardener Street / Church Street
BRIGHTON & HOVE St James Street / Old Steine
BRIGHTON & HOVE Lower Esplanade / Kings Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE West Street - Oceana Night Club
BRIGHTON & HOVE Madeira Drive
BRIGHTON & HOVE Gloucester Road / Kensington Gardens
BRIGHTON & HOVE Trafalgar Street / Sydney Street
BRIGHTON & HOVE Trafalgar Street / Over Street
BRIGHTON & HOVE Regency Square / Esplanade
BRIGHTON & HOVE Gloucester Place / St Peters
BRIGHTON & HOVE London Road / Cheapside
BRIGHTON & HOVE London Road / Preston Circus
BRIGHTON & HOVE New England Road / Argyle Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Old Steine / Pavilion Parade
BRIGHTON & HOVE Dyke Road / Wykeham Terrace
BRIGHTON & HOVE Dyke Road / 6th Form College
BRIGHTON & HOVE Western Road (o/side HMV ?)
BRIGHTON & HOVE Lewes Road / Hartington Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Locks Hill / Old Shoreham Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Benfield Way / Old Shoreham Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Hangleton Road / Old Shoreham Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Old Shoreham Road / Dyke Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Lewes Road / Elm Grove
BRIGHTON & HOVE Oxford Street
BRIGHTON & HOVE Richmond Parade
BRIGHTON & HOVE Queensdown Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Natal Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Bear Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Franklin Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE The Upper Drive
BRIGHTON & HOVE St James Street / Lower Rock Gardens
BRIGHTON & HOVE St James Street / Dorset Gardens
BRIGHTON & HOVE Queens Road / North Road
BRIGHTON & HOVE Brighton Marina (view only)
BRIGHTON & HOVE Royal Sussex County Hospital (view only)
BURGESS HILL Station Road
BURGESS HILL Church Walk/Cyprus Road
BURGESS HILL Church Walk
BURGESS HILL The Martletts
BURGESS HILL Station Road (east)
BURGESS HILL Civic Way RA
BURGESS HILL Royal George Road
CHICHESTER North Street / Northgate
CHICHESTER North Street / St Peters
CHICHESTER Crane Street / Chapel Street
CHICHESTER North Street - south end
CHICHESTER East Street - near cross
CHICHESTER East Street - eastern end
CHICHESTER Eastgate Square / The Hornet
CHICHESTER South Street - end of precinct
CHICHESTER South Street - southern end
CHICHESTER Southgate / Market Avenue
CHICHESTER New Park Road / Priory Road
CHICHESTER West Street - opp Cathedral
CHICHESTER Westgate / Avenue de Chartres
CHICHESTER Stockbridge Road
CHICHESTER St Martins Street
CHICHESTER East Walls
CHICHESTER Eastgate Square
CHICHESTER New Park Road
CHICHESTER Northgate Car Park - NW corner
CHICHESTER Little London Car park
CHICHESTER Newtown
CHICHESTER Baffyns lane car park
CHICHESTER East Pallant car park - NW corner
CHICHESTER Cawley Priory Car Park
CHICHESTER Market Avenue Car Park
CHICHESTER South Pallant Car park
CHICHESTER St Johns Car Park
CHICHESTER Chichester Control Room
CHICHESTER Cattle Market Car Park - E corner
CHICHESTER Basin Road Car Park - N corner
CHICHESTER Avenue De Chartres Car park - SE corner
CHICHESTER Westgate Centre Car Park
CHICHESTER Skate park
CHICHESTER Westgate - rear
CHICHESTER Avenue De Chartres Car Park (toilets fixed view)
CHICHESTER Avenue De Chartres Car Park (toilets fixed view)
CHICHESTER Avenue De Chartres Car Park - interior car park camera
CHICHESTER Avenue De Chartres Car Park - interior car park camera
CHICHESTER Avenue De Chartres Car Park - interior car park camera
CHICHESTER Avenue De Chartres Car Park - interior car park camera
CHICHESTER St Cyriacs car park
CHICHESTER Pallents
CHICHESTER New Park Road Car Park
CRAWLEY The Boulevard / The Broadway
CRAWLEY High Street (Brewery Shades)
CRAWLEY High Street (Troys)
CRAWLEY The Broadway / Haslett Avenue West
CRAWLEY Queens Square
CRAWLEY The Broadway / Queens Square
CRAWLEY Queensway
CRAWLEY Bus & Railway Station
CRAWLEY Moka Club
CRAWLEY Haslett Avenue (o/s Debenhams)
CRAWLEY Kilnmead RA (Leisure Complex)
CRAWLEY legends and Pucnh Bowl
CRAWLEY J J Whispers
CRAWLEY Costa Coffee
CRAWLEY Game Station
CRAWLEY Maidenbower Square
CRAWLEY Maidenbower - Harvest Drive
CRAWLEY Peterhouse Parade
CRAWLEY Northgate Parade / Woodfield Road
CRAWLEY Three Bridges Parade / Gales Drive
CRAWLEY Three Bridges Railway Station
CRAWLEY Pound Hill Parade / Worth Road
CRAWLEY Furnace Green Parade / Furnace Drive
CRAWLEY Tilgate Parade / Titmus Drive
CRAWLEY Southgate Parade / Wakehurst Drive
CRAWLEY Southgate West - Downland Drive / Caburn Heights
CRAWLEY Shire Parade
CRAWLEY Broadfield Health Centre
CRAWLEY Broadfield Car Park
CRAWLEY Broadfield Centre
CRAWLEY Broadfield Barton - PH
CRAWLEY Dorsten Square, Bewbush
CRAWLEY Dorsen PH / Bewbush Drive
CRAWLEY Gossops Green Parade
CRAWLEY Dobbins Place - Ifield West
CRAWLEY Ifield Parade / Ifield Drive
CRAWLEY West Green Parade / West Green Drive
CRAWLEY Langley Green Parade
CRAWLEY Leisure Park Link
CRAWLEY County Mall Link
CRAWLEY Skate Park
CRAWLEY Bewbush Pavilion - Rear
CRAWLEY Bewbush Pavillion Front
CRAWLEY Bewbush Pavillion Rear
CRAWLEY Langley Parade 1
CRAWLEY Langley Parade 2
CRAWLEY Pocket Park
CRAWLEY Linchmere Place
CRAWLEY Rear Dorsten Square
CRAWLEY Rear Furnace Green
CROWBOROUGH Crowborough Hill / Farningham Road
CROWBOROUGH Church Road / Chequers
CROWBOROUGH High Street / Nevill Road
CROWBOROUGH Crowborough Cross
EAST GRINSTEAD High Street
EAST GRINSTEAD London Road (South)
EAST GRINSTEAD London Road / King Street
EAST GRINSTEAD Kings Street - The Base
EAST GRINSTEAD London Road / Broadway
EAST GRINSTEAD London Road / A22 (North)
EAST GRINSTEAD Railway Station
EAST GRINSTEAD High Street (Rose & Crown)
EAST GRINSTEAD Church Lane / De La Warr Road (car park)
EAST GRINSTEAD Cantelupe Road
EAST GRINSTEAD Library
EAST GRINSTEAD Lewes Road / Beeching Way
EAST WITTERING Shore Road
EASTBOURNE Railway Station
EASTBOURNE Cornfield Road
EASTBOURNE Bolton Road
EASTBOURNE Langney Road
EASTBOURNE Pevensey Road
EASTBOURNE Seaside Road
EASTBOURNE Cavendish Place
EASTBOURNE Seaside
EASTBOURNE Princes park
EASTBOURNE Redoubt
EASTBOURNE Pier
EASTBOURNE Terminus Road
EASTBOURNE Bandstand
EASTBOURNE Wish Tower
EASTBOURNE Memorial Roundabout
EASTBOURNE Ashford / Susans Road
EASTBOURNE Cavendish / Pevensey Road
HAILSHAM Vicarage Fields
HAILSHAM Market
HAILSHAM London Road
HAILSHAM Sports Centre
HAILSHAM North Street
HAILSHAM South Road
HAILSHAM Summerheath Road
HAILSHAM Rope Makers Park
HASTINGS Wellington Place
HASTINGS Memorial Square
HASTINGS Pelham Place
HASTINGS Queens Road
HASTINGS Carlisle Parade
HASTINGS Hastings Railway Station
HASTINGS Cambridge Road
HASTINGS Harold Place
HASTINGS Queens Road - North
HASTINGS St Margarets Road / Falaise Road
HASTINGS Pier
HASTINGS Warrior Square
HASTINGS London Road . St Leonards
HASTINGS Kings Road , St Leonards
HASTINGS St Leonards railway Station
HASTINGS Marine Court
HASTINGS George Street
HASTINGS Rock a Nore - Fishmarket
HASTINGS East Beach
HASTINGS Sea Road
HASTINGS Silverhill
HASTINGS Ore Village
HASTINGS Bohemia Road
HASTINGS Norman Road
HASTINGS Lifeboat Station
HASTINGS Havelock
HASTINGS High Street
HASTINGS Chilton Drive, Broomgrove, Hastings
HASTINGS Malvern Way / Penine Rise , Broomgrove, Hastings
HASTINGS Priory Meadow centre
HASTINGS Priory Meadow centre
HASTINGS Hastings Borough Council
HAYWARDS HEATH Sussex Square
HAYWARDS HEATH South Road
HAYWARDS HEATH South Road (west)
HAYWARDS HEATH The Broadway
HAYWARDS HEATH Commercial Square / Railway Station
HORSHAM Carfax / Swan Walk
HORSHAM West Street (South)
HORSHAM Carfax
HORSHAM East Street / Middle Street
HORSHAM Market Square (suspended Oct 12)
HORSHAM Carfax (Bandstand)
HORSHAM North Street
HORSHAM Arts Centre (North Street)
HORSHAM Park House Lodge
HORSHAM Rear of Park House/Cons
HORSHAM Chichester Terrace
HORSHAM Recreation Centre
HORSHAM Railway Station
HORSHAM Play Area (Park)
HORSHAM Blackhorse Way
HORSHAM West Street / Swan Walk
HORSHAM Worthing Road
HORSHAM MacDonalds
HORSHAM Bishopric
HORSHAM Piries Passage
HORSHAM Waitrose / Piries Place
HORSHAM Piries Car Park
HORSHAM Recreation Centre (rear)
HORSHAM Albion Way
HORSHAM East Street / Queens Street
HORSHAM Skate Park
HORSHAM Bus Station 1
HORSHAM Bus Station 2
HORSHAM Swimming Pool - Hurst Road entrance
HORSHAM Swimming Pool - Car Park North
HORSHAM Swimming Pool - Play Area
HORSHAM Swimming Pool - Outside
HORSHAM Library
HORSHAM Water Feature
HORSHAM Forum Precinct
HORSHAM Forum Café
HORSHAM Park Surg / underpass
LANCING Lancing
LEWES Cliffe High Street / High Street (o/s Boots)
LEWES Lansdown Place / Station Street
LEWES Station Street / High Street
LITTLEHAMPTON Franciscan Way
LITTLEHAMPTON Surrey Street
LITTLEHAMPTON High Street (east end)
LITTLEHAMPTON Pier Road
LITTLEHAMPTON Arcade Road
LITTLEHAMPTON Riverside
MIDHURST Capron House
MIDHURST North Street car park
MIDHURST Lamberts Lane
MIDHURST North Street central
MIDHURST Market Square
MIDHURST Bepton Road
MIDHURST PO CP
MIDHURST Grange Centre car park
MOULESCOOMB Ringmer Road / Newick Road
MOULESCOOMB Chailey Road
MOULESCOOMB Lewes Road / Coldean Lane
MOULESCOOMB Newick Road
MOULESCOOMB Rigmer Road
MOULESCOOMB Barcombe Road
MOULESCOOMB Coldean/junction Lewes Road
MOULESCOOMB Lewes Road/Southern Water
MOULESCOOMB Coldean Belt
NEWHAVEN Meeching Road
NEWHAVEN High Street
NEWHAVEN Chapel Street
NEWHAVEN North Lane
PETWORTH Village Square
PETWORTH Pound Street car park north
PETWORTH Pound Street car park south
PETWORTH Sylvia Beaufoy car park
POLEGATE High Street / Railway Station
POLEGATE High Street / The Dinkum
Ravenside Ravenside Retail Park
Ravenside Brett Drive
Ravenside link from Ravenside Security
RUSTINGTON Woodlands Avenue
SEAFORD Station Approach Roundabout
SEAFORD Pelham Road / Dane Road o/s Morrisons
SEAFORD Broad Street / High Street
SEAFORD Clinton Place / Broad Street
SEAFORD Place lane / Church Street
SEAFORD South Street / Church Street
SEAFORD Esplanade / Marine Parade
SELSEY Fire Station / High Street
SELSEY Neptune Public House
SELSEY West Street junction
SELSEY East Street car park
SELSEY Church Road Junction
SHOREHAM Coronation Green / High Street
SHOREHAM Brunswick Road
SIDLEY Ninfield Road
SIDLEY Ninfield Road adjacent to Smith & Humphreys
SOUTHWATER Co-Op
SOUTHWATER S/W Surgery
SOUTHWATER Pub camera
SOUTHWATER Lintot Square Car Park
SOUTHWATER Beeson House
SOUTHWATER Rear car park / access road
SOUTHWICK Southwick Square
STEYNING High Street
WHITEHAWK Whitehawk Road (outside the Whitehawk Centre)
WHITEHAWK Whitehawk Way / Fletching Close
WHITEHAWK Whitehawk Way / Plaistow Close
WHITEHAWK Kestral Court
WHITEHAWK Swallow Court
WHITEHAWK Whitehawk Road (outside 143/144)
WHITEHAWK Pildown Road / Nuthurst Place
WHITEHAWK Wilson Avenue/ Stanley Deason
WORTHING Cresent Road / Montague Street
WORTHING Montague Street
WORTHING Portland Road
WORTHING Montague Place
WORTHING South Street / Montague Street
WORTHING Pier
WORTHING Clock Tower
WORTHING The Steyne / High Street
WORTHING Chatsworth Road / Chapel Road
WORTHING North Street / Chapel Road
WORTHING Richmond Road car park
WORTHING Teville Road
WORTHING Railway Approach
WORTHING Chapel Road / Richmond Road
WORTHING Splash Point
WORTHING Ivy Arch Road
WORTHING High Street
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