HC Deb 25 April 1996 vol 276 c261W
21. Mr. Waterson

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what research he has evaluated as to the effectiveness of CCTV in combating crime. [25058]

Mr. Maclean

My Department has published a number of research papers looking at various aspects of CCTV effectiveness as part of its series of crime prevention unit papers and the successor series of crime detection and prevention papers. The most recent of these—published on 29 December 1995—is paper number 68—"CCTV in Town Centres: Three Case Studies". Copies of all these papers are held in the Library.