In an ironic move, the Lothian and Borders Safety Camera Partnership is considering placing security cameras to safeguard speed cameras from being vandalized at Scottish borders. This measure is under consideration after seven cameras were burnt, pulled apart or destroyed in the area over the past three years.
Specifically cameras installed on A68, A1 and the A697 in Berwickshire have been targeted by vandals prompting authorities to consider increasing security here.
"Every time it happens it is inconvenient, it is costly and it is a crime," Colin McNeil of the Lothian and Borders Safety Camera Partnership told the BBC. "It is obviously something that we are concerned about to such a degree that we are now looking at potential ways of monitoring sites."
He added that one option seriously considered was to put cameras on cameras. If the measure gets the nod then many more cameras could be placed in problem spots.
"There are companies there who would provide us with CCTV coverage of the cameras themselves - the cameras looking after the cameras kind of thing," McNeil added. "We need to evaluate that on a cost basis and evaluate properly before we even consider it."
