CCTV installed for Olympic Games

The control room detects about 2,000 incidents a year

Permanent CCTV cameras have been installed in Portland, Dorset, for the first time.

Three cameras have been put up in Fortuneswell and Easton Square to help combat crime and begin extra surveillance.

Weymouth and Portland Borough Council said the move would bring Portland in line with Weymouth, which already uses CCTV surveillance for public safety.

The council is planning to install more cameras in the lead up to the Olympics.

Live pictures from the new equipment will be monitored by a control room which watches over Weymouth and West Dorset.

The centre already detects about 2,000 incidents a year, about half of which result in an arrest.

Weymouth and Portland Borough Council's safety manager, Grant Armfield, said: "We are working with the police as partners but there will be additional cameras both on Portland, some in Weymouth and some on the approaches into Weymouth and some of the towns.

"These together will make an increased security package for the area as a whole for 2012."

The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy will host the sailing events for the London 2012 Olympics.