Utility poles intended to accommodate police wireless CCTV cameras could be erected at key locations across the Island, according to a series of planning applications.

The Planning Department has received more than 20 planning applications from the CCS Group Ltd, a subsidiary of the BAS Group of Companies, all related to the instillation of the poles.

Of the applications, four relate to the City of Hamilton, including poles at the corner of Victoria and King Streets, Dundonald and Court Streets, Court and Angle Streets and Cedar Avenue and Elliot Street.

A fifth telegraph pole in Pembroke would be erected at the junction of North Shore Road and Blackwatch Pass.

A total of four poles would be installed in Devonshire, including two on Frog Lane, one and the junction of Palmetto Road and Dock Hill and one at the junction of Middle Road and Tee Street.

Cobbs Hill Road will meanwhile see four new poles installed, with cameras being placed at the junctions with Harbour Road, Ord Road, Middle Road and the Railway Trail.

Poles will also be installed at the junction of South Road and Point Finger Road in Paget, and the junction of Khyber Pass and Middle Road in Warwick.

Further to the west, one telegraph pole is proposed for Royal Naval Field in Sandys, but none were proposed for Southampton.

On the eastern side of the Island three telegraph poles are proposed for Hamilton Parish and two in St George’s.

The Hamilton Parish poles would be installed at the junction of North Shore Road and Fractious Street, North Shore Road and Wilkinson Avenue and the southern entrance of the Government Quarry.

Meanwhile in St George’s a pole would be placed at the junction of Old Military Road and Cut Road, and a second at the junction of Wellington Slip Road and Mullet Bay Road.

Security firm BAS-Serco, who took over from previous CCTV provider GET Security earlier this year, have been tasked with installing around 150 cameras across the Island to provide almost double the coverage that existed under the previous system.

The promised new network would be linked to a central control room wirelessly and include both facial recognition and automatic number plate recognition.

However the introduction of the new system has come under some criticism after the original cameras installed in the St Monica’s Road area were removed days before the new cameras could be installed due to technical difficulties.