CCTV detected 93 incidents in the district between January and July this year.
The majority of these were public order issues or fights, which made up 38 incidents, followed by a person causing annoyance (18 incidents). Criminal damage, drink driving, drug incidents and indecent behaviour were also detected.
Twenty-six arrests were made as a result.
The figures were presented to last night’s meeting of the local Policing and Community Safety Partnership in Newry.
Among the incidents recorded included a man who had been ejected from Murphy’s Bar in Downpatrick and was seen attacking door staff and throwing bottles at them; a Black Seat “driving all over the road” on Church Street in the town and “a male with a traffic cone on his head in the middle of SuperValu car park and a Silver Corsa pulling handbrake turns around him before going on to do doughnuts”.
CCTV also helped to locate a man in the Market Street area of Downpatrick in possession of a seven inch knife, as well as a man armed with a knife who had earlier tried to commit a burglary in English Street.
The reports also included a number of incidents outside Quinn’s Bar in Newcastle.
Quinn’s staff had to restrain a man who tried to intervene in a fight and went to his car boot for a wheel jack. There were also reports of two women fighting outside Quinn’s, one of whom head butted and punched a male. Two men snorting white powder from a bag with a rolled up note outside the bar were also captured on camera.