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The implementation and impact of crime prevention / crime control open street closed-circuit television surveillance in South African central business districts

Surveillance & society, 2007-01, Vol.4 (3), p.174-207 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

ISSN: 1477-7487 ;EISSN: 1477-7487

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  • Title:
    The implementation and impact of crime prevention / crime control open street closed-circuit television surveillance in South African central business districts
  • Author: Minnaar, Anthony
  • Subjects: Business ; Crime ; Observation ; Police ; Public expenditure ; Social control ; South Africa ; Surveillance
  • Is Part Of: Surveillance & society, 2007-01, Vol.4 (3), p.174-207
  • Description: The use and implementation of public open street Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance systems in Central Business Districts (CBDs) in South Africa solely for the purpose of crime control (reducing street crime) or crime prevention (deterrence) has in South Africa been a relatively new intervention within the broader context of crime prevention programmes. One of the drawbacks to its implementation for this purpose has been its costs and the inability of the South African Police Service to fund such implementation in the light of other more pressing priorities and demands on its finances and resources. However, the initiative to start implementing and linking CCTV surveillance systems in CBDs in the major metropolitan cities of South Africa to local police services was taken in the mid-1990s by Business Against Crime of South Africa (BACSA). This article, using case study overviews from four South African CBD areas (Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria (Tshwane) and Durban), traces CCTV use as crime control or prevention surveillance, how they were implemented, the rationale behind their implementation and the operationalising of them in terms of preventing street crime and its uses in other surveillance. In addition it also looks at this initiative from the perspective of the growth and commercialisation of the management of these services, and the cooperation and co-ordination structures in partnership with the South African Police Service (SAPS). Furthermore, it reviews the purported impact on the reduction of crime of these systems in CBDs and finally the application of public crime surveillance by the CCTV control room operators (private security) in cooperation with the police (response team) and the role it plays in the observation, recording, arrest and conviction of suspects. Reprinted by permission of Surveillance & Society
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1477-7487
    EISSN: 1477-7487
  • Source: DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
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