From: Helen Yoxall, 4751 7704 helenyoxall@bigpond.com

Public space CCTV - some resources

Grants

• Grants made under the National Community Crime Prevention Programme (PDF)
  (includes that to Katoomba Chamber of Commerce and Community in 2007)
• Grants made under the Safer Suburbs Plan
  (includes that to Springwood Chamber of Commerce in 2008)
  • (See under "Announcements")

Newspaper articles and Letters to the editor re CCTV in the Blue Mountains

• Dickins, Jim. "Katoomba Crime Ghetto", Sunday Telegraph, 25 March 2007
• Desiatnik, Shane. "Going it alone: Katoomba businesses to fund CCTV cameras", Blue Mountains Gazette, 18 April 2007
• Mays, Janet. "Community Solution Needed, Not Lone Rangers" (letter to editor), Blue Mountains Gazette, 9 May 2007
• "Springwood Chamber gears up for busy time", Blue Mountains Gazette, 12 November 2008 (not available on-line)
• "Funding comes through for Springwood CCTV system", Blue Mountains Gazette, 10 Dec 2008
• Desiatnik, Shane. "Business anger over delays with CCTV footage", Blue Mountains Gazette, 17 December 2008 (not available on-line)
• Yoxall, Helen. "CCTV cameras" (letter to editor), Blue Mountains Gazette, 7 January 2009 (not available on-line)

Legislation and government guidelines

• NSW Government Policy Statement and Guidelines for the Establishment and Implementation of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) in Public Places.(PDF) NSW Attorney General's Department, 2000
• Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998

Some recent newspaper articles and radio programmes which discuss the cost and lack of effectiveness of CCTV

• "CCTV cameras not effective at preventing crime: experts", ABC radio "AM", 7 May 2008
• Camber, Rebecca. "Big brother is NOT watching you: cash-strapped towns leave CCTV cameras unmonitored", London Daily Mail, 16th December 2008
  
• Finnane, Kieran. "Are CCTV cameras in Todd Mall a waste of money?" Alice Springs News, 29 May 2008
• Walters, Conrad. "There is no-where to hide in Sydney" (PDF) Sydney Morning Herald, 22 September 2007

Research Articles

• Gill, Martin & Spriggs, Angela. 2005. Assessing the impact of CCTV (PDF) Home Office Research Development and Statistics Directorate (British Home Research Study 292)
• IRIS Research. 2005. Australian councils CCTV survey. Wollongong, Iris Research, 2005 (not available on-line)
• Sutton, Adam and Wilson, Dean. 2004. "Open-street CCTV in Australia: the politics of resistance and expansion." Surveillance and Society, 2(2/3):310-322
• Wilson, Dean and Sutton, Adam. 2003. Open-street CCTV in Australia. Australian Institute of Criminology, 2004 (Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice No. 271)
• Wilson, Paul, Allard, Troy and Wells, Helene. 2006. Crime and CCTV in Australia: understanding the relationship. (Bond University Humanities and Social Sciences Paper 70)