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City bumps up surveillance camera program Gaeil Farrar Staff Writer More surveillance cameras to catch criminals and prevent crime will be going up around the city starting this year. Williams Lake city council committed to a new project with the Williams Lake Central Business Improvement Association (BIA) to purchase 32 high-resolution surveillance cameras for the city over
the next few years. The move came at Tuesday’s city council meeting and was in direct response to a violent crime in the Boitanio Park skateboard park Monday afternoon in which a 14-year-old boy was robbed of his BMX bike at gunpoint. Finance chair Coun. Scott Nelson said the total project will cost about $150,000 rolled out in contributions from the city of $25,000 per year starting this year and each
year thereafter until all 32 cameras are in place. Council gave early 2016 budget approval to contribute $10,000 toward the cost of upgrading the BIA’s security camera computer system and $15,000 toward the purchase of additional high resolution surveillance cameras. “It is a significant amount of money but we believe the cameras will be a significant tool for the RCMP to help reduce crime in the
city and catch criminals,” Nelson says. If the purchase price on the cameras holds, Jan Hermiston, the BIA’s surveillance camera committee chair, said they hope to have four new cameras in place by the end of the year. The BIA currently has four cameras in the downtown core. See NEW Page A3
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