Cutting Crime and Saving Lives.

SAFETY in the City of Fremantle will be boosted with the injection of $20,000 from the State Government for the development of a mobile security camera.

Police minister Rob Johnson will hand over the money, which is part of a special project under the City’s Community Safety and Crime Prevention Plan, on a special visit to the City’s CCTV room on Thursday, November 20 at 10am.

The Plan was developed in co-operation with the Office of Crime Prevention.

Fremantle has a network of cameras operating throughout the City aimed at targeting anti-social behaviour, particularly in its nightclub precinct.

The mobile camera project will be used at trouble ‘hotspots’ where a permanent camera is not needed but where graffiti, illegal dumping of rubbish or anti-social behaviour may be a problem.

The City’s Community Safety Co-ordinator Cameron Bartkowski said the City’s CCTV program had been enormously successful in combating crime since the cameras were installed in October 2007.

“Our figures show that our monitoring has been directly responsible for 74 arrests, 13 reports of hoon activity, three of drink driving offences and 23 emergency calls to ambulances in the two–year period it has been operating,” he said. 

“This new technology will operate in real time.

“Images will be sent back to the monitoring room by wireless or Next-G technology so that emergency services like police and ambulance can respond faster.”