REQUESTS for CCTV footage have almost doubled in recent months, according to the council's latest budget report.
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Police asked for 41 pieces of CCTV surveillance in the first three months of the year, which represented a 57 per cent increase on the previous quarter.
It was 86 per cent up on the numbers of requests made during winter in 2018.
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The figures come from Tamworth Regional Council's latest quarterly budget report which will be discussed at Tuesday night's ordinary meeting.
The report showed there had been an increase in all of the council's crime prevention activities with more parking ranger patrols carried out in school zones and a rise in the number abandoned cars reported by the community.
The council recently received close to $1 million from the federal government for increased surveillance, which was said to be a "great asset" for local police.
The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) has showed some decreases in offences in that time.
There were 806 incidents of malicious damage, including graffiti, in 2018 which was down by 11 per cent compared to the previous year, but up marginally on 2016 counts. There was about 15 per cent fewer non-domestic assaults in 2018 compared to the previous year, however the tally was greater than the number of reported incidents in 2016.
In the last year, there 544 reported incidents of theft from cars and 587 break-and-enters.
This was up more than 37 per cent on the number of reports in 2015.
It comes after the council adopted a crime prevention strategy in 2017 which noted the "significant increase" in requests for temporary CCTV units.
In order to meet the growing demand, the annual budget for crime prevention was doubled to $20,000.
The council recently spent $115,000, from the federal government grant, on a mobile, solar-powered CCTV unit.
Elsewhere, in the budget report, the council's libraries reported a mini-boom with 455 new memberships signed in the first quarter of 2019.
There were more than 51,000 items loaned from the libraries in that time.
There was also a surge in interest in the Tamworth art gallery which has seen its numbers of visitors double since winter last year.
There were 9000 gallery visitors in the first three months of 2019 which followed on from a tally which topped 10,000 at the end of 2018 and slightly less than 7000 last winter.