New Hampshire DMV Offices Getting Video Surveillance Systems

New Hampshire is installing video surveillance systems at its motor vehicle registration offices in an effort combat licensing fraud.

The Division of Motor Vehicles says $465,000 in federal Homeland Security funding will pay for video security at motor vehicles offices throughout the state.

Director Richard Bailey Jr. said an earlier round of funding previously paid for surveillance systems in Concord and Manchester.

Bailey told the Eagle-Tribune that the added security is not a direct response to a fraud case in the DMV’s Salem office where a bribery and theft scheme resulted in dozens of people being issued drivers licenses without proper documentation.

A former DMV clerk was sentenced this year to eight to 28 years in prison for her role in selling driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.