Te Atatu residents are planning to put three spy
cameras at a cost of $300,000 on the peninsula
to curb crime.
Community Constable Murray Smith is backing the project even though the system would be manned 24 hours, seven
days a week by volunteers.
"This would not be a replacement for the police but an additional tool for the community," he said.
He told the Waitakere City Council that he had worked with closed circuit television systems in Britain where in Brighton abut 2500 arrests a year were attributed to television monitoring.
The council is considering a request from the police, the Te Atatu Night Owls and residents to help fund the
project.
It has referred the matter to the annual budget deliberations.
The cameras, which can rotate 360 degrees, would be placed just off the motorway exit leading to Te Atatu
peninsula, on Te Atatu Rd and in the shopping
centre.
Downtown Auckland has 16 cameras monitored by the policy and the Manukau City Council started a six-month
camera trial last month to curb night crime in the
red-light Hunters Corner area at Papatoetoe.
Te Atatu residents to man own spy cameras
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