NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 08: A surveillance camera is seen trained toward the World Trade Center site on September 8, 2011 in New York City. Heightened security for the anniversary commemoration will include hundreds of surveillance cameras at the site. New York City and the nation are preparing for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on lower Manhattan which resulted in the deaths of 2,753 people at the World Trade Center. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Surveillance Camera (credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images)

FREMONT (CBS SF) – The city of Fremont will be installing a series of video surveillance cameras and license plate readers, after the city council gave its unanimous approval for the project on Tuesday night.

The plan calls for as many as a dozen cameras to be installed at key entrance and exit points around Fremont.

“The reason that we are concentrating on those locations is because of our recognition of the mobile nature of the modern offender,” said Fremont Police Chief Richard Lucero.