Cameras are set to be installed in the north east of the city as part of plans to crack down on fly-tipping hotspots.
New CCTV coverage is planned in areas which aren’t “particularly visible to the public” and don’t have much passing traffic.
Bollards will also be used to block off dead-end streets, where housing has been demolished.
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Members of the council’s north east area partnership — which includes Easterhouse, Garthamlock, Craigend, Ruchazie, Hogganfield and Provanmill — have agreed to fund the installations from a £1m infrastructure fund.
Cllr Ruairi Kelly, SNP, who chairs the partnership, said: “I’m sure all the members will be aware of the problems we’ve had with that [fly-tipping] across the city.
“Specifically in some of the more remote areas in the north east where there’s not a lot of people living beside it and not a lot of traffic passing it and it’s not particularly visible to the public.”
He added Drumlochy Road, in Ruchazie, is “really bad for it” as well as some of the roads leading from Easterhouse to North Lanarkshire.
Adding mobile CCTV to lighting columns is expected to cost between £2,000 and £4,000 — and two cameras are set to be installed at this stage.
Bollards, which Cllr Kelly said would be placed “where there used to be tenements that have been cleared but now have just become hotspots for fly-tipping”, will cost £500 each.
Cllr Maureen Burke, Labour, said the area had been “crying out for for a long, long time” for CCTV. “It’s something that has been blighting our communities,” she added.
Bailie Sharon Greer, Labour, asked how the council would decide where to put cameras.
Cllr Kelly said council staff have a “heatmap of where the hotspots of fly-tipping are” and they would also work with local police officers to get advice on “where they think they will best be able to gather evidence”.
A council official said cameras had been trialled in the north west of the city, where a “prolific” fly-tipper, who dumped thousands of tyres, was caught and jailed for 11 months.
Cllr Kelly said cameras have “been shown to be successful when they have been implemented and put in place correctly”.
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