MEMBERS of Barrhead Community Council are urging East Renfrewshire Council to install CCTV cameras in Cowan Park before children break up for the summer holidays.

But council bosses have again refused to confirm they will make any moves to put surveillance measures in place.

A spokesman for East Renfrewshire Council told the Barrhead News that, as part of the CCTV modernisation programme, temporary cameras within the town’s park were “being explored”.

However, staff did not confirm if and when they’d be put in place.

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A council spokesman said: “As part of the CCTV modernisation programme, installing temporary cameras at Cowan Park is being explored.

“Due to power supply restrictions within the park, any temporary cameras would need to be attached to lighting columns on the perimeter area.”

Cowan Park underwent a £250,000 upgrade last year, but it has been continually targeted by vandals, where yobs have scattered litter and set fire to equipment.

And the latest attack saw the children’s slide covered in black spray paint.

Barrhead Community Council is calling for CCTV to be brought into the park before school kids break up for the summer holidays after raising concerns vandalism may increase over the period.

Speaking at the recent meeting, chairwoman Rosaleen Reilly said: “Claire Reid, community resource manager for East Renfrewshire Council, spoke about the CCTV at our previous meeting.

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“There are presently 34 cameras in Barrhead – all cameras are going through upgrades and becoming wireless.

“They are looking at cameras at Barrhead High School to allow them to include a larger part of the park, with a re-deployable camera being installed in a few months.

“The way I look at this is that I’m not interested, in such a great extent. 

“I am more interested that they get the camera up in Cowan Park, as soon as possible, before these summer holidays start.

“It’s so the mothers and the children can go there and feel a wee bit safer and secure. 

“I don’t want to be waiting until they [the council] find out what they’re doing any where else. No.

“We want a camera in Cowan Park.”

A parent, who asked to remain anonymous, previously told the Barrhead News that youths ‘constantly’ congregate in the playpark to drink at the weekends, highlighting that residents staying around the area are suffering from them making noise and vandalising equipment.