LIFESTYLER
January 25 2012
Kaipara
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Security success prompts camera review Security cameras installed at Dargaville’s Riverside Taha Awa gardens have proved their worth and again helped identify offenders in a recent graffiti attack, raising hopes the system could be extended in the town. The cameras were installed as part of a joint venture involving the Dargaville Gardens Trust, Kaipara District Council and the Dargaville Business Forum. As a result the forum will be raising the issue of wider CCTV coverage in Dargaville at its meeting next week. “We have had tremendous results from the trial in the gardens,” said Pat Millich. “It’s now up to the business people of the town as to whether this coverage should be extended. It is quite expensive but it has results.” The community garden has been a target for vandalism since its inception, which led to cameras being installed last November. “The cameras proved invaluable in Stunning artwork replaces graffiti at the Gordon Street reserve identifying those involved in the attack on and around the pirate ship over the New Year period,” said Dargaville of the businesses in Maungaturoto might be an affordable option.” Gardens Trust chairman, Graham Kidd. The incident has highlighted the ongoing problem with graffiti in “The children’s playground ship was damaged and large amounts some parts of the town. Recently, art has been effectively used at the of graffiti was daubed inside and outside as well as on nearby tables, Gordon Street Reserve to make a stunning change to the desolate seats and signs.” concrete wall that was previously a graffiti target. Mayor Neil Tiller agrees the cameras were effective. The Gordon Street Reserve has now been landscaped and “If the business community in Dargaville wanted to do something planted. It sports a distinctive metal sculpture running the length similar, council would be more than happy to work with them to help of the defining fence line and it has the 3D mural on a shed wall, them achieve this,” he said. bordering the reserve. “But the business community would need to pay for and take People keen to help in decorating towns in the Kaipara can contact ownership of any surveillance or security camera system. Perhaps something similar to the security camera system put in place by some Heidi Dreyer at KDC on 09 439 3123.
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