How your CCTV can help Birmingham Police

How your CCTV can help Birmingham Police

Dear Resident,

Your CCTV is helping us to solve real crimes in the local area.

In 2024, we launched our secure CCTV database, which maps out resident and business cameras across the region, to help us secure valuable evidence when a crime happens in the area. View our leaflet by clicking here

We currently have over 29,000 cameras registered on the database from across the region, including doorbell cameras, business security systems and home installed CCTV cameras.

These cameras have already had an impact on our police officers being able to secure evidence in the crucial early stages of an investigation, take action quickly, and arrest offenders, before having to go door-to-door to secure additional CCTV evidence from cameras who may not be registered on the database.

Register your CCTV and doorbell cameras with us today to receive alerts when your footage may help us catch criminals operating in your area.

It takes just 60 seconds to add your details to our secure police system. You’ll just add your name, address, email and the number of cameras you control.

How it works in three steps:

Register your cameras securely in 60 seconds.

You will receive a text or email when a crime happens near your home or business and our officers believe your CCTV may have recorded the incident.

Upload the images via the secure link contained in the message.

As part of Safer Action Business Week (SaBA) we are reminding businesses of the importance of registering their external cameras on the database.

This allows us to quickly send a notification via a community Axon request email, if we believe your cameras could have captured valuable footage for our investigations. It also helps safeguard your premises to help us prevent and detect retail crime and antisocial behaviour around our local businesses and high streets.

Privacy:

Your name, address camera details or any other personal information will not be publicly available on the secure site.

Investigating officers will only be able to see cameras plotted on a digital map and held on a secure police system with strictly controlled access.

We will not have access to your cameras or stored images – you decide what images you share with us and there is no obligation to submit any footage you have.

We will only contact you if we believe you may have recorded the incident or suspects.

Sharing your recording with us does not mean you will have to attend court.

You can unsubscribe at any time.

This is a police system and access is therefore strictly limited to investigating officers. Officers using the system have their actions audited by Professional Standards and this will ensure the system is not misused.

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Anthony Wilkes 30860
(West Midlands Police, Corporate Communications, Birmingham)