Retail - Case study
Neighbourhood shopping centre - parking & common areas
Somerset West, Western Cape - completed May 2026 by our Western Cape team · CCTV installation in Somerset West
- Cameras
- 58 × 4MP + LPR
- Vehicle lanes
- 4
CCTV for a neighbourhood shopping centre, covering parking, entrances and common areas, with LPR at vehicle access points.
Equipment supplied
- ▸Dahua 64-ch NVR
- ▸58 × Dahua 4MP IP cameras
- ▸4 × LPR cameras
- ▸Centre management viewing station
- ▸Public address link
Scope of work
What international research shows
Published findings on this kind of intervention elsewhere, not results measured on this site.
Car parks showed the largest and most consistent effect of any setting studied: CCTV schemes there were associated with a 37% reduction in crime compared with control areas.
Source: Piza, Welsh, Farrington & Thomas (2019), CCTV surveillance for crime prevention: a 40-year systematic review with meta-analysis, Criminology & Public Policy, as summarised by the US National Institute of Justice's CrimeSolutionsA 40-year meta-analysis of 76 CCTV evaluations found about 14% lower odds of crime in areas with CCTV than in comparable areas without it. The effect was modest overall, and the review found no significant effect on violent crime, which is why cameras work best as one layer alongside access control and response.
Source: Piza, Welsh, Farrington & Thomas (2019), CCTV surveillance for crime prevention: a 40-year systematic review with meta-analysis, Criminology & Public Policy, as summarised by the US National Institute of Justice's CrimeSolutions
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