Pickpockets will be targeted in a new police operation which uses CCTV to moniter the High Street.
Operation Tree Tops also involves police officers patrolling the town centre and Freeport shopping village in the run up to Christmas.
An Essex Police spokesman said this is a covert and overt operation to cut crime such as theft in the shopping areas.
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