Vale of White Horse District Council
Abbey House, Abbey Close,
Abingdon, OX14 3JE
Email: comments@whitehorsedc.gov.uk
Telephone: 01235 520202

Vale of White Horse District Council

Closed circuit television cameras (CCTV)

The Vale of White Horse District Council currently operate and manage the CCTV scheme in Abingdon, Wantage, Didcot, Thame, Henley and Wallingford town centres.

The schemes help improve the detection of crime and reduce the fear of crime in the town centres. The scheme is funded in partnership by Thames Valley Police, the Vale of White Horse District Council, South Oxfordshire District Council and Abingdon, Wantage, Didcot, Thame, Henley and Wallingford Town Councils.

As well as being used to detect crime and disorder, CCTV is also used to monitor traffic, assist in locating missing persons and give advance warning of fires or other emergency situations.   

The CCTV Control Room is located in the police station in Abingdon where Vale of White Horse District Council staff are employed to monitor the cameras.

The CCTV cameras are operated according to a code of practice adopted by the Thames Valley CCTV Users. THis code of practice can be downloaded from the right of the page.

Requesting CCTV evidence

The procedure relating to public access to the Vale of White Horse District Council CCTV system is compliant with, and contained in, the CCTV code of practice (available from the right of the page) issued by the Information Commissioners Office. This includes an Application Form to request access; all requests for access should be to:

CCTV Supervisor
CCTV Control Room
Abingdon Police Station
Thames Valley Police Station
Colwell Drive
Abingdon
OX14 1AU
Tel. 01235 556929

A fee of £10 is payable for each access request along with suitable identification documents.

All incidents that relate to crime including offences under the Road Traffic Act should, in the first instance, be reported to Thames Valley Police.

Please note that CCTV data that has not previously been requested is retained on the system for a maximum of 31 days.

For further information about CCTV please see the The Home Office National CCTV Strategy website.