Council orders $30k mobile CCTV trailer for city safety

THE Toowoomba Regional Council will soon have a mobile CCTV trailer that could be deployed into crime hot spots where there isn't surveillance.

Camera locations will be determined through consultation with police and security experts. Picture: Stuart Millian

THE Toowoomba Regional Council will soon have a mobile CCTV trailer that could be deployed into crime hot spots where there isn't surveillance.

The council's environment and community department announced the new trailer, worth about $30,000, would be in use before Christmas.

"The mobile CitySafe camera trailer has been ordered and that's to monitor areas where we don't have permanent cameras," the council officer told the councillors in the meeting yesterday. 

"It's just another tool, it's not the solution, for some of our hot spots."

Cr Nancy Sommerfield praised the concept, suggesting places where it could be put to use first.

"I take great interest in the mobile CCTV trailer, because I have a great spot for it at the new Emu Creek waste facility," she said.

"We've had to replace the chain and lock regularly.

"It's very frustrating we can't do anything right now about vandals at our tips."

The council is expected to work with the Queensland Police Service to do with the use of the mobile trailer.

Originally published as Council orders $30k mobile CCTV trailer for city safety