The Town of Niverville is now offering a security camera grant to encourage businesses and institutions to improve outdoor security monitoring in public spaces.

Niverville Mayor Myron Dyck says for businesses and institutions to receive the grant they must buy cameras that meet certain stipulations. He notes these stipulations are in place to ensure the cameras are high quality and all footage is usable in RCMP investigations.

"What this grant does, is we are going to grant $1,000 to businesses who are prepared to put these cameras up. It will be done at $200 over 5 years which is $1,000 and depending on the exact cost, it is roughly a third to half of the total cost of the camera and that is for 50 per year."

Dyck says ever since a resident of Niverville was attacked by an intruder on his property, there has been a strong focus on security in Niverville. He notes town council has been looking at how they can improve security for a few months now.

"We have been discussing security and emergency services when we go to our planning session every year, so this November, prior to the heightened awareness that we had in January in light of the unfortunate attack on the resident, we have been talking about additional cameras, been doing some research on what the RCMP could use."

Dyck says in addition to the security camera grant, the town has also passed a surveillance policy to ensure all footage that is gathered is released properly.

"So now the information has been captured, how is the information being released and to whom? We had to lay that out, so there is a process by which there must be written form for the RCMP. We have to be careful dealing with privacy laws dealing with the privacy act and so that has all been put into that policy."

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