CCTV camera proposal heading to White Rock city council

CCTV cameras could beryllium coming to nan city of White Rock, B.C., successful a bid to “deter convulsive crime and anti-social behaviour.”

The cameras would not beryllium monitored successful existent clip and would beryllium utilized some arsenic a deterrent and to thief RCMP cod grounds and lick crimes.

At their Monday meeting, metropolis councillors will person nan chance to ballot connected either a scheme to instal cameras successful 30 locations on nan Marine Drive portion and Uptown area aliases to activity pinch nan RCMP connected 3 “higher-risk strategical locations” to instal cameras.

In November 2023, assembly voted to get quotes from imaginable vendors who could group up a CCTV aviator programme successful nan city.

The metropolis sewage 4 bids, ranging successful value from $219,150 to $571,000 and pinch varying degrees of complexity.

In a study headed to assembly Monday night, unit recommended nan $571,000 bid by Houle Electric.

While nan connection is nan astir costly nan metropolis received, unit recovered it represented nan “best wide worth and quality” and “demonstrates a amended knowing of nan scope of nan activity and nan complexities it involves.”‘

The full superior costs of choosing nan Houle bid would really activity retired to $823,750. That fig includes $100,000 to statement a task manager, $10,000 to prosecute a advisor to woody pinch state of accusation requests and privateness effect appraisal applications, and a 25 per cent contingency connected nan Houle bid itself. The metropolis estimates operating nan strategy would costs astir $60,000 a year.

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As an replacement to nan Houle bid, councillors could ballot to inquire nan RCMP to take 3 high-impact locations for CCTV cameras, past measure their effectiveness to build retired a broader implementation strategy. Staff would still request to activity retired costs for this strategy.

Councillors could besides ballot not to move up pinch cameras astatine all.

The ballot comes months aft a brace of high-profile stabbings connected nan White Rock Promenade, 1 of which proved fatal.

The April attacks rattled nan seaside organization and sparked a statement astir nationalist safety.

Dimitri Nelson Hyacinth, 27, has been charged pinch aggravated battle and second-degree execution successful nan attacks.