Boosting community safety
Councillor Hermann Vorster takes a zero tolerance approach to anti-social behavior. He has rolled out safety cameras, boosted funding to community crime fighters and personally dismantled drug dens in local parks.
New CCTV cameras
Drug dens eliminated
Recent highlights
- Established a precinct-wide surveillance network in Central Park, Varsity Promenade and Market Square.
- Secured $40,000 to clean out drug hovels on State-controlled land along the heavy rail line and deployed CCTV.
- Deployed relocatable CCTV cameras to deter thugs and vandals targeting Robina Village.
- Installed CCTV cameras in Robina Common to deter drug users, vandals, thieves, bullies and arsonists.
- Installed CCTV throughout Frascott Park to deter vandals, hoons, lewd behaviour and drug dealers.
- Installed four CCTV cameras at the Varsity Lakes skate park to target vandals and bullies.
- Secured funding for covert CCTV cameras to target vandals and suburban hoons terrorizing residential streets.
- Funded CCTV to deter anti-social behavior around the Gold Coast District Cricket Club and Kerrydale Park.
- Funded CCTV to protect volunteers at the Gold Coast Justices Association working at Robina Town Centre.
- Personally exposed, cleaned-up or destroyed drug dens in Kerrydale Park, Jack Wilson Park, Central Park, Bayswater Reserve, Azzurra Island, and on Lake Orr.
- Boosted funding to Neighbourhood Watch, Crime Stoppers and Volunteers in Policing for local safety interventions.
- Funded Gold Coast Neighbourhood Watch Connection Day to boost crime fighting initiatives across the Gold Coast.
- Secured emergency funding to keep the Robina Community Legal Centre afloat and serving the most vulnerable in the community.
More in this year's budget
The City Budget 2018-19 and Division 11 Local Area Works Budget 2018-19 funds another major expansion of safety cameras to target hoons and emerging threats.
“Hermann Vorster is a Gold Coast City Councillor trying to shutdown the drug problem as soon as it emerges.”
The shocking nature of the daylight attacks has led Cr Vorster to ask the council to create a buffer zone around the running track.
“We were looking at some ways we can eliminate risk and it is definitely worthwhile doing a massive maintenance intervention in that park,’ he said.
“We will remove all the exotic and noxious weeds in a 10m area of that path.”