Hibs are ready to spend £100,000 on a state of the art CCTV system to ensure that there are no more bottle attacks on opposing players.
Attacks on players were taken to a new level earlier this year when a Buckfast bottle was thrown at Scott Sinclair as he prepared to take a corner during a Scottish Cup tie.
A whole series of security failures created that incident, the bottle managed to get into the stadium and was probably drunk from before being thrown at the Celtic winger.
When Willie Collum handed the bottle to a steward it appeared to be disposed of rather than retained for DNA testing which could have helped detect who had thrown it at Sinclair.
Explaining the new CCTV system the Daily Record revealed:
The Easter Road chief executive has taken a no-nonsense stance following a string of high-profile incidents involving her club this season, notably describing the supporter who entered the field of play to confront Rangers captain James Tavernier last month as an “idiot”.
That occurred less than a week after one thug lobbed a Buckfast bottle at Celtic ’s Scott Sinclair.
Police Scotland interviewed 37 witnesses but have been unable to identify the perpetrator of that act, which was not caught on film due to cameras being momentarily trained on a different area of the ground.
While the previous surveillance system was considered one of the best in the country outwith Celtic and Rangers, Dempster has signed off on an upgrade that will supersede anything else in use in the SPFL.
The new set-up will see 11 high-definition cameras installed this summer that will cover every area of the stadium and ensure there are no blind spots, with one member of Hibs’ hierarchy revealing “it can read a tattoo”.
It seems, like the police presence, that the CCTV cameras were watching the Celtic support when Sinclair was attacked.
Soon afterwards while taking a corner from the same area a coin was thrown at the hoops forward.