MEETING OF LUCAN AREA COMMITTEE
Thursday, June 23, 2016
MOTION NO. 10
MOTION: Councillor L. O'Toole
"Further to a JPC meeting where I requested that Lucan be included for CCTV to help address anti-social behaviour this committee asks the CEO to liaise with the Lucan Gardaí to identify areas/locations where CCTV can be installed in the Lucan and Palmerstown area."
REPORT:
"The Community Based CCTV Scheme (which was led by the then Department of Justice and Law Reform) commenced in 2005 and aimed to support local communities who wished to install and maintain community CCTV security systems in their area, with the goal of increasing public safety and reducing the risk of anti-social and criminal activity.
The scheme was intended to support community-based organisations that wish to provide community CCTV systems, in order to deter illegal or anti-social behaviour in places to which the general public have routine access, such as residential communities, city and town centres. The scheme was designed to provide financial assistance, to qualifying local organisations, towards meeting the capital costs associated with the establishment of local community CCTV systems. Applications made by local community based organisations in South Dublin County were sucessfull in the following areas: Tallaght/Jobstown, Tallaght/Killinarden, Tallaght/Brookfield-Fettercairn and Clondalkin. There was no provision in this scheme for ongoing monitoring and maintenance.
The Community CCTV Scheme is no longer open to any new funding applications. It is advisable that a feasibility study be presented by local community justifying the need and indicating possible areas for CCTV."