Community Safety Camera Project

Thanks for your interest - the feedback stage of this project is now finished.

Kia ora, welcome to our community conversation platform. It’s great to have you here!

We want to work together to make our communities the best they can be for our people now and in the future.

This is your opportunity to help contribute to making the Whakatāne District an even better place to live, work, play and visit.

What's this about?

We received $1 million from the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) Better Off Funding package to deliver and upgrade the existing community safety camera network (also known as CCTV) with modern cameras, add more cameras and improve system monitoring abilities.

With significant input from NZ Police, and a series of workshops with key community members, we've created a draft design of camera locations throughout the Whakatāne District. The camera 'wishlist' has been prioritised in order of importance - critical, high, medium and low. We're now asking the wider community to sense-check if we've got it about right in terms of location and priority.

This is your opportunity to tell us what you think. Once we've collated the feedback from this phase, the final draft design will go to your Mayor and Councillors on Thursday, 6 July 2023 to make the final decisions about where the cameras will go. Obviously the budget won't stretch far enough to install all the cameras on the list at this stage, but we'll be working to find further funds for more cameras in the future.

Please open the maps and view the area you would like to provide feedback on and complete the form below. It should only take ten minutes and will really help to ensure we get this right.

Maps showing CCTV Review & Future State Design to see where we're planning to add cameras - (PDF, 13.8 MB)

When viewing the maps, use this legend to identify priority areas.

Note - there are four types of cameras:

  • PTZ - stands for 'Pan - Tilt - Zoom'. These are built with mechanical parts that allow them to swivel left to right, tilt up and down, and zoom in and out of a scene.
  • Fixed - these cameras have one fixed angle.
  • Multi-imager - single cameras that offer 180° to 360° degree coverage by using multiple sensors.
  • ANPR - stands for 'Automatic Number Plate Recognition'. These cameras read and digitalise vehicle number plates in real-time.

Frequently Asked Questions about the Community safety camera project »

We're aiming to install the new cameras in the second half of 2023.

So - kōrero mai. Be part of the conversation and tell us what you think by 5pm Wednesday, 14 June.

Kia ora, welcome to our community conversation platform. It’s great to have you here!

We want to work together to make our communities the best they can be for our people now and in the future.

This is your opportunity to help contribute to making the Whakatāne District an even better place to live, work, play and visit.

What's this about?

We received $1 million from the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) Better Off Funding package to deliver and upgrade the existing community safety camera network (also known as CCTV) with modern cameras, add more cameras and improve system monitoring abilities.

With significant input from NZ Police, and a series of workshops with key community members, we've created a draft design of camera locations throughout the Whakatāne District. The camera 'wishlist' has been prioritised in order of importance - critical, high, medium and low. We're now asking the wider community to sense-check if we've got it about right in terms of location and priority.

This is your opportunity to tell us what you think. Once we've collated the feedback from this phase, the final draft design will go to your Mayor and Councillors on Thursday, 6 July 2023 to make the final decisions about where the cameras will go. Obviously the budget won't stretch far enough to install all the cameras on the list at this stage, but we'll be working to find further funds for more cameras in the future.

Please open the maps and view the area you would like to provide feedback on and complete the form below. It should only take ten minutes and will really help to ensure we get this right.

Maps showing CCTV Review & Future State Design to see where we're planning to add cameras - (PDF, 13.8 MB)

When viewing the maps, use this legend to identify priority areas.

Note - there are four types of cameras:

  • PTZ - stands for 'Pan - Tilt - Zoom'. These are built with mechanical parts that allow them to swivel left to right, tilt up and down, and zoom in and out of a scene.
  • Fixed - these cameras have one fixed angle.
  • Multi-imager - single cameras that offer 180° to 360° degree coverage by using multiple sensors.
  • ANPR - stands for 'Automatic Number Plate Recognition'. These cameras read and digitalise vehicle number plates in real-time.

Frequently Asked Questions about the Community safety camera project »

We're aiming to install the new cameras in the second half of 2023.

So - kōrero mai. Be part of the conversation and tell us what you think by 5pm Wednesday, 14 June.