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Tackling Antisocial behaviour

CCTV

Crime and anti-social hot spots in Darwin, Casuarina and Palmerston will be under closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance by the end of the year with 25 cameras being installed at Casuarina, 21 in the Darwin CBD and 16 in the Palmerston CBD.

A Darwin company, Security & Technology Services, has been awarded the $3.3 million contract to install the 62 CCTV cameras, which can pan, tilt and zoom. Those 62 will be linked to another 46 existing cameras at the Casuarina and Palmerston bus interchanges and the Mitchell Street taxi rank.

The Territory Government is also providing $1.1 million for the installation of an additional 16 cameras in the Alice Springs CBD and $200 000 a year for monitoring. This brings the total number of CCTV cameras in Alice Springs CBD to 30. The new cameras in Alice Springs will focus on Hartley Street, Bath Street, Parsons Street, Gregory Terrace and Leichhardt Terrace.

CCTV networks act as a deterrent and assist police in catching people involved in criminal activities. When the CCTV systems are operating in Darwin, police will be able to conduct virtual patrols of known hotspots for criminal activity and anti-social behaviour and dispatch police where police attendance is required.

For further information, refer to the CCTV factsheet.

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