Announcements
Projects funded under the Safer Suburbs Plan – 3 December 2008
- Springwood Chamber of Commerce - $70,000 (NSW). This project will install a CCTV network and upgrade lighting in the main shopping strip of Springwood, to help reduce crime, anti-social behaviour and vandalism.
Projects funded under the Safer Suburbs Plan – 26 November 2008
- Penrith City Council - $300,000 (NSW). The Cranebrook Street Lighting Enhancement Project will improve community safety in Cranebrook by providing street and pedestrian pathway lighting enhancements to reduce crime and antisocial behaviour.
- Moreton Bay Regional Council - $1,000,000 (QLD). This project will be completed in two stages, the first being a feasibility study with the community and local business. The second stage will be the implementation of CCTV and lighting in areas identified through the feasibility study.
- Northern Territory Government - $2,250,000 (NT). This funding will provide for the design and implementation of a CCTV system for the Darwin and Palmerston areas, which will focus on the highest priority hot spots identified by the Northern Territory Police.
- City of Tea Tree Gully - $75,000 (SA). This project allows for the installation of lighting at the Golden Grove Recreation and Arts Centre in an aim to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour.
- City of Salisbury - $75,000 (SA). This project allows for the installation of CCTV cameras in John Street, the main shopping street of Salisbury, to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour.
- City of Playford - $75,000 (SA). The Elizabeth Regional Centre Community Safety Project aims to improve community safety through the installation of CCTV cameras at the City of Playford Youth Precinct Skate Park, Northern Sound System and Aquadome.
- Town of Gawler - $75,000 (SA). This project aims to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour in Gawler by providing greater CCTV coverage of trouble spots, including civic parks. The CCTV system will be installed in consultation with police and local business.
- Shire of Kalamunda - $500,000 (WA). This funding is for a number of community safety projects including the Youth and Early Intervention and Prevention Program and the employment of a Safer Communities Project Officer to work on crime prevention initiatives. A Safer Suburbs Project Officer will also be engaged to undertake an audit of public places and implement a CCTV strategy.
Projects funded under the Safer Suburbs Plan – 30 October 2008
- Warrane Mornington Neighbourhood Centre Incorporated - $495,000 (TAS). The Training Opportunities and Options for Learning (TOOL) project will be delivered over two years and will address the lack of services for at-risk young people on the eastern shore of Hobart by supporting the development of personal, educational and vocational skills of individuals.
Projects funded under the Safer Suburbs Plan – 16 June 2008
- City of Swan - $500,000 (WA). The Creating Safer Places – Early Intervention and Response Project aims to detect and deter criminal activity within Ballajura through the installation of CCTV cameras (both fixed and mobile) and lighting.
- City of Swan - $500,000 (WA). The Dungeon Youth Centre Project will contribute to the cost of constructing new premises for the Dungeon Youth Centre. The project aims to decrease the incidence of antisocial behaviour and criminal activity and promote constructive social relations by providing diversionary activities to young people in the Ballajura area.
- City of Stirling - $1,600,000 (WA). The Additional Community Safety Measures Project aims to contribute to wider crime prevention measures within the City of Stirling. It will include additional security patrols vehicles (with global positioning systems), monitoring of hot spots by foot patrols and quad bikes for beach patrols.
- City of Gosnells - $500,000 (WA). The Thornlie Civic Precinct Revitalisation and Creative Pod Project aims to reduce youth antisocial behaviour through a redesign of the Civic Precinct including the installation of CCTV cameras, a video streaming webcam. It will also partly fund youth early intervention measures through the establishment of a creative digital studio in the Amberst Village Community Centre.
- Tweed Shire Council - $200,000 (NSW). The Bus Shelters Security and Vandal Resistant Retrofit Project aims to address the issue of vandalism of bus shelters in the Tweed Shire by upgrading shelters with vandal resistant panels and installing street lights.
- Geelong City Council - $300,000 (VIC). The Central Geelong Safety Initiative Project aims to reduce crime and antisocial behaviour within the city centre through a variety of initiatives including; the upgrading of CCTV cameras and lighting; the establishment of a safe taxi rank; a night rider bus and community education workshops.
Projects funded under the Safer Suburbs Plan – 26 May 2008
- City of Wanneroo - $1,000,000 (WA). The CCTV Detection Capacity Project aims to install CCTV (including mobile units) in ‘hot spot’ sites within the city with an emphasis on managing graffiti.
- Alice Springs City Council - $300,000 (NT). The CCTV Monitoring Support Project aims to contribute to a wider initiative of CCTV and other crime prevention measures within the Todd Mall area of Alice Springs.
- Gosford City Council - $680,000 (NSW). The Peninsula CCTV Project aims to detect and deter antisocial behaviour by the installation of CCTV cameras in the Umina Beach, Woy Woy and Ettalong Beach precincts.
- City of Belmont - $1,400,000 (WA). The AlarmAssist CCTV Project aims to detect and deter criminal activity within the City of Belmont through the installation of a CCTV system and allocation of alarms to residents and business owners.
- Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure - $2,500,000 (SA). The Interchange CCTV Systems Project aims to upgrade the current CCTV systems at Gawler, Elizabeth and Salisbury Railway Stations.
