Wallaceburg councillors Aaron Hall and Carmen McGregor are teaming up to fight crime in downtown Wallaceburg.
Both councillors plan on discussing ideas on how to curb crime at an upcoming Chatham-Kent council meeting.
Hall would like to see security closed circuit cameras eventually in Wallaceburg.
Currently, cameras were installed in downtown Chatham as part of a council-approved pilot project. The cameras went live earlier this summer. The plan for the pilot project is to gather data for one year, and if everything goes well, eventually expand the cameras to other areas of Chatham-Kent.
Hall wants police to update council on how the Chatham pilot project is going in early 2024, and encourage the Chatham-Kent police service to look into expanding the cameras to downtown Wallaceburg sometime later in 2024.
Wallaceburg is set to install fibre infrastructure that is needed for security cameras as part of its street-light replacement project.
Chatham-Kent police recently completed a crime prevention through environmental design audit in downtown Wallaceburg.
Wallaceburg councillor Carmen McGregor wants Chatham-Kent staff to take some of the audit’s recommendations and investigate possibly changing the environmental design on municipal property downtown as a crime prevention measure.