SEX in public and kids playing football at 4am are two of the less serious offences that Chelmsford's CCTV specialists pick-up on.
Loaded with about 51 screens, the control room wires into 338 cameras that stretch to Whitham and South Woodham Ferris.
It is manned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by at least two operators at any given time.
Incidences where the control room has proved vital include a female assaulted three weeks ago and criminals trying to install a Lebanese card reader in the High Street's Santander cash point two weeks ago.
Father-of-two and CCTV team leader Matt Walsh, who has spent 13 years in security, said: "If you can't handle some of the things you see here it's not for you. You have to have a thick skin when you see people get beaten-up."
The 33-year-old added: "We've seen sex in the Moulsham Street subway. Also in the back of Bond Street on the bonnet of a Ford KA."
THE FULL interview with Matt Walsh, including an in-depth feature on Chelmsford's nightlife, will feature in Thursday's Essex Chronicle.
Loaded with about 51 screens, the control room wires into 338 cameras that stretch to Whitham and South Woodham Ferris.
It is manned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by at least two operators at any given time.
Incidences where the control room has proved vital include a female assaulted three weeks ago and criminals trying to install a Lebanese card reader in the High Street's Santander cash point two weeks ago.
Father-of-two and CCTV team leader Matt Walsh, who has spent 13 years in security, said: "If you can't handle some of the things you see here it's not for you. You have to have a thick skin when you see people get beaten-up."
The 33-year-old added: "We've seen sex in the Moulsham Street subway. Also in the back of Bond Street on the bonnet of a Ford KA."
THE FULL interview with Matt Walsh, including an in-depth feature on Chelmsford's nightlife, will feature in Thursday's Essex Chronicle.
