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Wednesday <strong>September</strong> <strong>19</strong> <strong>2018</strong><br />
News<br />
Police won’t help pay for cameras<br />
Community<br />
board could<br />
now stump up<br />
• By Matt Salmons<br />
POLICE WILL not help pay<br />
for crime cameras proposed in<br />
Sumner and now residents will<br />
seek community board funding.<br />
Concerned residents raised<br />
$4000 to buy two CCTV cameras<br />
last year, but were told they<br />
needed cameras which would<br />
work with the Christchurch City<br />
Crime Camera Network.<br />
The two cameras will cost<br />
$20,000, leaving them $16,000<br />
short.<br />
Police previously told the residents<br />
that money may have been<br />
available for the cameras from a<br />
discretionary fund.<br />
However, a letter from police<br />
to the Linwood-Central-Heathcote<br />
Community Board quashed<br />
its financial support for the<br />
proposed cameras due to a lack<br />
of funding.<br />
South Island police district<br />
services manager Kelvin Giddens<br />
said the budget allocated towards<br />
the cameras had been halved this<br />
year.<br />
Mr Giddens said for the past<br />
seven years, police and the city<br />
council had worked in partnership<br />
to maintain and expand the<br />
camera network.<br />
“We have been advised by the<br />
Christchurch Transport Operations<br />
Centre, who manage the<br />
installation and maintenance<br />
of the camera network, that the<br />
allocated funds will not allow for<br />
any expansion.<br />
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PREVENTION: Sumner residents plan to seek community<br />
board funding for crime cameras after police said they could<br />
not financially support the plan.<br />
“Therefore, regrettably, there<br />
is no existing funding available<br />
to support the proposed camera<br />
installation in Sumner.”<br />
Police and city council staff<br />
investigated possible sites for<br />
the cameras in Sumner on <strong>September</strong><br />
11. A report said further<br />
engineering assessments were<br />
required.<br />
Camera advocate Kath Preston<br />
said the lack of funding meant<br />
residents now “had to go to the<br />
[Linwood-Central-Heathcote]<br />
Community Board.”<br />
“All up, we need $20,000.<br />
We’ve raised $4000 ourselves,<br />
but we still need another<br />
$16,000.”<br />
Ms Preston and other concerned<br />
residents want to meet<br />
with the community board next<br />
month to put forward a case for<br />
funding.<br />
“We know they’ve funded<br />
other cameras [in Linwood] in<br />
the past, so they may be happy<br />
to.”<br />
If the community board does<br />
not help pay for the cameras,<br />
the residents would be “back to<br />
square one” and would look at<br />
fundraising, Ms Preston said.<br />
The plan for the crime cameras<br />
was prompted by a spate of aggravated<br />
burglaries in Sumner<br />
and Mt Pleasant last year. A<br />
31-year-old man was jailed for<br />
three years in relation to them<br />
and other offences.<br />
“I’m just taking one step at<br />
a time. This has all become<br />
more complex than I originally<br />
thought it would be,” Ms Preston<br />
said.<br />
“It’s still definitely in the<br />
pipeline, we just don’t have the<br />
money.”<br />
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Fire rages, homes at risk<br />
WOMAN ESCAPES LOO<br />
A woman trapped in a public<br />
toilet on the Esplanade escaped<br />
before firefighters arrived on<br />
Sunday. The Sumner Volunteer<br />
Fire Brigade was called out to<br />
rescue the woman but chief<br />
fire officer Daryl Sayer said<br />
the she had escaped, either<br />
by herself or with some help<br />
before the brigade arrived. He<br />
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of call out, but it did happen<br />
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One of the campervans<br />
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