CCTV is set to return to Aberystwyth this month, five years after it was scrapped by Ceredigion council in a cost-cutting move.

Dyfed-Powys Police and Crime Commissioner Dafydd Llywelyn said work was due to start this month on putting 10 state-of-the-art cameras back up in Aberystwyth, after the system was mothballed in 2014 despite vehement opposition.

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

Baydale Control Systems Ltd was scheduled to start work in Aberystwyth on Monday. The system is set to be up and running by later this month.

Aberystwyth councillor Ceredig Davies said: “Switching off the town’s CCTV cameras was a retrograde step, and as the councillor in whose ward all the cameras are located I looked forward to them being reinstated.

“I have had numerous conversations with Dafydd Llywelyn on the matter and on behalf of residents and visitors to the town I applaud him on keeping to his election pledge.”

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