The Conservatives were the first Council in the country to install a corporately managed CCTV system - on Bournemouth seafront. The local Lib Dems voted against the introduction.

Huge sums were saved for the council tax payer by a drastic reduction in vandalism and criminal activity. Criminals were arrested and taken off the streets and the system paid for itself many times over.

Today's Lib Dem Council have not made law and order their top priority and Bournemouth's once proud CCTV system is fast disappearing. The cameras along virtually the entire seafront have been switched off together.

The Conservatives would reverse this trend as they started to do before the last local elections. Rather than switch cameras off, they would modernise and extend the system to cover more of the town and seafront.

While some progress to replacing cameras has begun in the town centre. It will be years before systems in Boscombe and on the seafront are working properly again.