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Community Safety Initiative - CCTV Presentation to Privacy Issues Forum: Privacy is your Business

Community Safety Initiative - CCTV Presentation to Privacy Issues Forum: Privacy is your Business Wellington 27 August 2008. Presented by Laurie Gabites Manager City Safety Wellington City Council. Community Safety Initiative - CCTV. Introduction Local Government and Safety

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Community Safety Initiative - CCTV Presentation to Privacy Issues Forum: Privacy is your Business

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  1. Community Safety Initiative - CCTV Presentation to Privacy Issues Forum: Privacy is your Business Wellington 27 August 2008 Presented by Laurie Gabites Manager City Safety Wellington City Council

  2. Community Safety Initiative - CCTV • Introduction • Local Government and Safety • Safety Strategy • Drivers • Fear of crime • Crime prevention • Policing • Privacy • Observations and conclusions

  3. Community Safety Initiative - CCTV Local Government and Safety • Safety and Social wellbeing go together • Wellington has been in the business for sometime • We have a strategy • CCTV forms a small part of that strategy

  4. Community Safety Initiative - CCTV Safety Strategy • Been around since 2000/01 • Has 7 key issues and 31 initiatives • Outcome – ‘People feel safe in Wellington at any time’ • Included 5 initiatives to deal with dark spots – CCTV • Pilot project • Permanent system

  5. Community Safety Initiative - CCTV CCTV – Drivers • Expanded rapidly • Incidents influenced change • Large amounts of public funding • Not the case in NZ – usually local government • More often in City Centres

  6. Community Safety Initiative - CCTV Fear of Crime • Feelings of public safety often strong motivation for CCTV • Sometimes installed as a reaction • Often influenced by political and economic factors • Safety linked to boost in retail visits • Sometimes a bit of rhetoric • Often division between stakeholders and councils

  7. Community Safety Initiative - CCTV Crime Prevention • System focussed on identifying incidents • Some places install CCTV as final element • Many places it is part of the bigger safety strategy • Generally accepted it works better when combined

  8. Community Safety Initiative - CCTV Policing Perspective • There are some primary drivers for Police • Provides an aid to locating wide range of incidents • Often it is about perceptions • A belief the cameras work • Unsafe V safe

  9. Community Safety Initiative - CCTV Privacy • It is an issue for CCTV • What we gather is personal information • There is a bit of a surveillance society • Needs to be a balance • Growth in both CCTV and the new technology

  10. Community Safety Initiative - CCTV Observations and Conclusions • Monitoring • Volunteers • Where to from here • How we have addressed additional cameras and an approach to CCTV use • Will it work?

  11. THANK YOU Contact Details Laurie Gabites Manager City Safety Wellington City Council P O Box 2199 Wellington 6011 64 4 803 8094 64 21 227 8094 Laurie.gabites@wcc.govt.nz Community Safety Initiative - CCTV

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