A quarter of the CCTV cameras planned to be installed in Invercargill will be operational by Christmas, the city’s council says.
The Invercargill City Council committed $2.3 million for stage 1, to investigate and install 68 CCTV cameras across parts of Invercargill and Bluff after requests from the community and police.
In a statement yesterday, a council spokesperson said cameras at Stirling Point and South City were expected to be installed and operational before Christmas, bringing the total CCTV cameras installed to 46, 18 of which would be operational.
"Crime-preventative signs have also been put up across the locations to serve as a reminder that CCTV is operating."
The cameras started to be installed in November and involved installing them within the Tay St-Gala St-Queens Dr-Leven St boundary, South City and Stirling Point in Bluff.
All sites were expected to be live by mid-February 2025, then stage 2 was expected to begin next year and would involve scoping the wider Invercargill area for further potential CCTV camera placement sites.
— APL
