The cameras operate in areas where antisocial behaviour or criminal activity is more likely to occur. Pavement plaques have been placed in the monitored areas.
City of Melbourne employs specially trained security contractors to monitor the cameras 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Staff record incidents captured by the cameras and notify police immediately. Reports are prepared detailing the nature, time and place of an incident, as well as the action taken by staff and emergency services.
Additional cameras to be installed
Following the Bourke Street incident in 2017, the Victorian Government funded an expansion of the current CCTV network, with 31 new cameras to be installed by the end of 2018. The location of these cameras has been selected by Victoria Police and will strengthen the existing network.
The cameras will feed into the City of Melbourne’s Safe City network and 24-hour monitoring hub, and will be monitored by specially trained security contractors who notify incidents to police as they occur.
Speaker sets are also being installed at 95 locations across the Melbourne CBD to create a Public Address System that can be used to communicate important messages in an emergency.
It is one of a number of channels through which the emergency services can warn or provide information to the community if there is a major emergency.
For information on other security improvements being implemented throughout the CBD, visit Victorian Government
CBD Safety Upgrade.