Church CCTV Damaged by Vandals

Country: United Kingdom

Date of incident: August 17, 2018


Vandals damaged a CCTV camera from St. Mark's Parish Church in Raploch just one day after it was installed. The church had been subject to repeated acts of vandalism and a couple of CCTV cameras were installed in order to deter anti-social behavior. While one camera was damaged, the other cameras were already doing their job as they identified those responsible for the incident, enabling the police to trace them and take action.

Previous acts of vandalim against the church included the damaging of a sewage pipe in April 2018, the knocking off of coping stones from a wall in November 2016 which caused hundreds of pounds of damage and in May 2016 graffiti was found on the back of the church building. This was just days after a fire extinguisher was taken from the building and emptied nearby. 

Source: Daily Record