The Prince George downtown business community is discussing the idea of installing street surveillance cameras in the city core to help prevent criminal activity, especially at night.
Penticton council provided an additional $100,000 for the camera program last year to increase the scope of the system to 15 cameras and this past August approved funding for an additional 18 monitored cameras to create a city-wide system of 33 cameras. “Down here, overnight, there’s essentially nobody around, apart from maybe the people causing issues, and that’s why we’ve pushing for security camera patrols, to look out for things,” said Foley.
“The new technology they have with the cameras, it’s smarter, and it uses AI to detect violent motions, like punching and kicking. It can detect if fires are going on anywhere in downtown and it will alert the authorities when something like that is happening.