Oxford has one of the highest proportions of functioning CCTV cameras in the UK

According to a recent study by , only Portsmouth, Gloucester, Sunderland, and Sutton performed better than Oxford, which has 85 of its 87 cameras - 97.7 per cent - in operation. The company issued Freedom of Information requests to local council authorities to reveal Shahzad Ali, CEO and security expert at Get Licensed, said: "We can see from this study, there are still black spots in this CCTV coverage.

"Some local authorities have reported over 50 per cent of their CCTV cameras are out of operation.".