September 3 2019
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Plan to expand CCTV network u by Paul Campbell
Planning for Stage Two of the Dargaville Community CCTV Project with another series of camera installations is now underway with locations identified by New Zealand Police as being high risk and not already covered in Stage One of the project. Appropriate funding is being sought, and the Dargaville Community Development Board is also requesting funds to link CCTV cameras, which have been separately installed on school grounds and at sports fields, into the infrastructure. “The safety of our community members and visitors to Dargaville is of paramount importance and is the key reason that the DCDB has progressed the project forward in association with Dargaville Police,” said board chair, Allan Mortensen. “Now that the project has begun we are seeing major benefits from it, and we need to keep it moving forward. Several other towns in Northland have CCTV cameras operating, and Dargaville does p Sue Curtis and Constable Cohen in the CCTV monitoring base at Dargaville Police Station not want to be known as the The monitoring and recording devices soft-touch because we don’t have them.” way locations to discourage and report are housed at the Dargaville Police “The next step in the process is to undesirable behaviour. “There is a robust process in applying Station. “For responding to crime in create a Safer Dargaville Trust to apply for and administer funding, increase for a Targeted Rate, which the DCDB Dargaville, the cameras have been worth the number of cameras and locations is working through with the KDC. This their weight in gold,” says Constable both in Dargaville and, in the future, process could take up to two years, Reuben Cohen. “This increases our further afield. Part of this process is to so the board is approaching local response times and allows us to identify have a Targeted Rate adopted by the businesses for a monthly contribution to offenders from the cameras, leading to KDC to fund the ongoing costs and ensure that there is a fund to cover the a reduction of serious crime in the CBD. maintenance, together with establishing ongoing costs and maintenance until It is fair to say that our CBD is a safer place to be for our community.” ¢ a community patrol, visiting out of the the Targeted Rate is in place.”
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