Grand Forks in 1997, a town of about 4,000 in B.C.’s West Kootenay region, he saw there was a surveillance camera atop the historic 1911 city hall building.Cameras, Taylor acknowledges, are good for protecting property.And now, due to growing vandalism and theft of city property in the last year, council has approved the purchase and installation of a number of surveillance cameras to help stop the crimes.“I’m not surprised at the pressures that are on with COVID,” Taylor told Global News on Tuesday, following the release of police stats for the town during the first quarter of 2021.
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