‘SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS WILL IMPROVE SECURITY’

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installation of security cameras in public places and roads in Livingstone will lead to reduction in crime, the Livingstone City Council has observed. The local authority has had challenges in dealing with issues of public safety due to levels of crime and vandalism in particular. Council Public Relations Manager, Melvin Mukela, noted that once the cameras were operational, public safety and that of property would be guaranteed. Mr Mukela said the installation of security cameras would also help in reducing vandalism of public properties. He told the Daily Nation in Livingstone that the project of installing security cameras by the Ministry of Home Affairs has come at the right time when the city has had challenges in fighting crime. "We have had issues with vandalism so, the security cameras will help us in protecting public infrastructure. "We have received the project with both hands, we are excited as a local authority that the city for once will have security cameras," Mr Mukela said. He urged Livingstone residents to take the project as their own saying that it would help everybody. “As a local authority, we shall cooperate with the Ministry in ensuring that we provide necessary support that is required," he said. "Whenever criminals would want to evade the area, cameras will be able to help us in identifying such characters because they will be captured and be able to be traced," Mr Mukela said.