00:01To the black country now, where a CCTV camera installed to tackle fly-tipping in Walsall
00:06has been damaged in an arson attack just days after it was put in place.
00:11The camera on Horbush Road in Bloxwich was installed on the 13th of March
00:16as part of efforts to monitor problem areas within the borough.
00:20The fire happened at around nine in the evening just four days later,
00:25damaging the lighting column it was attached to.
00:27Walsall Council says the incident has been reported to police
00:31and is urging anyone with information to come forward.
00:34The authority says 71 cameras have now been deployed across the town
00:39to tackle both littering and also increasing levels of environmental crime.
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