Now the Project Champion board - which includes police and Birmingham city councillors - said they should go.

BBC: Group backs CCTV camera removal in Birmingham

Under Project Champion, cameras were installed in the Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook areas earlier this year, but residents said they were not consulted.

BBC: Group backs CCTV camera removal in Birmingham

In 2010, the "Project Champion" board - made up of police and city councillors - agreed to remove more than 200 surveillance cameras installed in mainly Muslim areas of Sparkbrook and Washwood Heath.

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Councillor Stan Waddington, cabinet project champion for the waste project, said it was "extremely suspicious" that neither the campaign group or the report's authors had made contact to ask any questions or check any facts.

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