28-06-2025
Proposal to create Victoria CCTV database which would fast track work for detectives
Former Victoria police detective Dave Bartlett discusses a proposal to save Victorian police officers a million hours of work a year by creating a CCTV registry.
Homeowners and shop owners would be able to voluntarily add their cameras to a database, which would fast-track the slow process for detectives, where they usually face delays when trying to access CCTV footage.
'At the moment they don't know where these cameras are, so they have to manually look for it, it's very laborious and very expensive, and it actually leads to slower closure times for investigations,' Mr Bartlett told Sky News host Steve Price.
'It takes the administrative burden from Victorian police.'
