HUMBERSIDE Police Authority has approved funding for new CCTV cameras in a village where two teenage friends died in a fire.
The authority's Communities and Partnerships Committee has agreed to spend £1,176 on the cameras which cover the area around Holme-on-Spalding-Moor village hall. The three cameras will add to the five already on the building.
The village hall comm
ittee's first bid for funding – one of more than 50 received by the authority – was filtered out before going in front of decision-makers.
Had it been approved, it would have increased the coverage available for the investigation into the deaths of Daniel Allan and Ryan Steels in May this year.
The boys were trapped when fire ripped through the garage of an empty house about half a mile away in the East Riding village on May 17.
Daniel died in the fire while his best friend Ryan died two days later at Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool.
The village hall committee says it wants the equipment to deter vandals. Expensive new play equipment is planned for the play area.
A letter to the committee referred to the boys' deaths, adding: "We were approached by the police during the investigation and our footage copied for evidence. It would have been useful had we had the planned improvements to our system which would have seen use of one of the older cameras in a position which would give us a view of the road in front of the village hall."
The money comes from the Humberside Police Authority Police Property Fund, which administers money recovered by the force that cannot be traced to its rightful owners.
The new equipment has been ordered and is due to be installed in October.
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