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From: Helen Yoxall, 4751 7704
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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)