Three new CCTV cameras have been added to the network that monitors activity from Church Street down to the old bridge, making a total of 13 cameras in the town.
One camera has been placed outside WH Smiths, a second at the Cattle Market Car Park and another at the Green Dragon.
The camera at the car park is to monitor any damage done to the baby changing room at the side of the toilet block, which is not covered by the one at Handyman House.
It will also provide a line-of-sight link with the third installation at the Green Dragon.
This one will cover the St Thomas’ Square area which has not been previously included in the CCTV network and will also provide some coverage for Cinderhill Street.
Now a link has been established in the St Thomas’ Square area, it would be possible to extend the area along Drybridge Street or further along Cinderhill Street.
The scheme is part of a county-wide CCTV system - a partnership with Monmouthshire County Council and the four county towns of Monmouth, Abergavenny, Caldicot and Chepstow.
Monmouth’s contribution to the scheme is £14,772.
The system was set up in 2008 after a £450,000 grant was awarded and images and footage from the cameras were sent down to the operations centre in Blaenavon via a BT link and recorded onto video cassette.
In 2014, the new dome cameras with radio link technology, provided better quality and offered a flexible option to add in or move cameras, replacing the original system of fixed cameras on BT Lines.
High quality images are now sent down secure lines to the Shared Resource Centre (SRS) at Blaenavon where a bank of operators monitor each town’s CCTV cameras.
Technology is advancing all the time and the operators are able to send images directly to police headquarters at Llantarnam rather than verbally describe an incident or person and while police make their way to the incident, the operators would continue to monitor and gather evidence to support the officers on the ground.
Now police officers do not have to travel to the SRS operations room to review footage, the footage can now be sent directly to officers.
Some funding for the system comes from the Safer Streets Fund, which was launched to help provide measures to prevent neighbourhood crime and deter anti-social behaviour, allowing local authorities funding to add additional cameras to their present system.
Since the Safer Streets Fund was launched in 2020, the government has invested £125 million through five rounds of the Safer Streets Fund, and the Safety of Women at Night
Safer Street 3 allowed extra cameras in Abergavenny and lighting in Bailey Park.
Safer Street 4 funding allowed extra measures to be put into the Caldicot area where there had been a rise in anti-social behaviour.
The three new cameras in Monmouth have been made available through the town and county council partnership.
A Monmouthshire County Council spokesperson said: "We are working in partnership with the town council and other partners to enhance the systems across Monmouth. Monmouth Town Council, along with Monmouthshire County Council, will contribute to funding the CCTV within the local area. The newly installed cameras will widen the access to coverage across the town and increase the number of cameras in the area, ensuring consistency across all towns in the county. CCTV plays a vital part in preventing and detecting crime in our towns and helping make our communities safer."
Anyone seeing anti-social behaviour is asked to report it through 101 or on X (formerly Twitter) @GwentPolice.