County councillors will decide whether to buy four new cameras for each town at a cost of £66,500 at a meeting on Tuesday. They could be installed within two months.

The cameras already in the towns could be relocated to villages.

A council survey found 70 per cent of people in favour of the system upgrade, which will use better technology to provide more detailed images to the police.

The cameras will be monitored at peak times and the running costs, including insurance and moving the cameras to hotspots around the towns will be £8,620 per year for three years and £13,540 per year after that.

During the first three years the monitoring charges are included in the purchase price.

Rutland County Council has already secured £45,034 of the money needed -£30,000 from local developers who were asked to contribute as part of their planning permission, £10,034 from the Rutland Community Safety Partnership and £5,000 from Leicestershire Constabulary.

If plans are approved the council will pay the remaining £21,000 from its development planning budgets.