COVERT CAMERAS CONSIDERED IN BID TO TACKLE SPREAD OF GRAFFITI

Date Published: 15-Jan-2013

Covert cameras should be placed in the city’s graffiti hotspots on a trial basis in a bid to prevent the spread of such criminal damage.

That’s one of the suggestions from the city’s Public Order/Crime Prevention Sub Committee.

The group has also proposed that the Garda Schools Programme and the Environmental Section of the City Council work to highlight the damage caused by graffiti attacks.

Cllr Niall Mc Nelis told this week’s Joint Policing Committee that the clean up of graffiti is costing the city council up to 20 thousand euro a year.

City Mayor Terry O’Flaherty said the graffiti is a blight on the city and the culprits should be made clean it up.

Speaking to Galway Bay fm news, Cllr Mc Nelis says it impacts on the city’s image and must be tackled.