CCTV cameras will return to Aberystwyth, Dyfed-Powys Chief Inspector Stephen Davies has said.

Mr Davies, speaking to Aberystwyth town councillors at a meeting last Monday, said that work to return a CCTV system to the town is “in progress”, and that he “hoped to see it return in the short to medium term.”

The system in Aberystwyth was mothballed by Ceredigion council in a cost-cutting move despite vehement opposition in April 2014, along with cameras across the county in a move which saved the authority £150,000 a year.

Calls for the system’s reinstatement have been repeatedly made ever since, amid fears over rising crime numbers and falling conviction rates.

Earlier this year Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn said he is raising the amount of money collected by police from the council tax to “move ahead” with his plans to “re-invest in CCTV”.

Mr Llywelyn has given no firm plans as to where in Dyfed-Powys the extra CCTV investment will be seen, but discussions continue.

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