Update from Dave Loader, BNH Crime Prevention Specialist
DURING THE 2023/24 financial year, Business North Harbour (BNH) received an allocation of funding from Auckland Council to spend on crime prevention for our business community.
As you know, we already provide a nightly security patrol service across our business area with our partners, Vanguard Security Ltd. To enhance these patrols, we used part of the funding to provide a 24/7 patrol coverage of our total area between 23 December 2023 and 7 January 2024. This period is when most businesses are locked up for the Christmas/New Year holiday break, so they are potentially more vulnerable to criminal activity. It was pleasing to see that, during this period, we only received three reported incidents of crime, which were all, thankfully, low-level.
The remainder of the funding has been spent on CCTV road coverage cameras at six locations around our Business Improvement District (BID). These complement the existing Auckland Transport camera network located around our BID’s perimeter. Footage from these cameras is supplied, when requested, to NZ Police for any criminal investigations that may occur. Vanguard Security checks our community camera network of six locations every night, as part of efforts to keep our business community, its assets and people as safe as possible.
BNH would like to acknowledge the three members who have allowed us to mount CCTV cameras on their premises. These have given us extra road coverage to assist in identifying offender vehicles associated with criminal activity. Thank you for helping to keep the North Harbour business community safer from crime.
