CCTV leads to 26 local arrests

CCTV leads to 26 local arrests

23 November 2016

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.