{"id":7222,"date":"2017-06-05T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/?p=7222"},"modified":"2017-09-11T15:22:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T05:22:53","slug":"7222-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/7222-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CHESTER SUPPORTS CCTV IN MORWELL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester is supporting a local campaign to address community safety in the Morwell Central Business District.<\/p>\n<p>Two recent community forums have called for a more visible police presence and the installation of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) in Morwell \u201chotspots\u201d where crime was common.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Chester said he supported calls for more CCTV cameras in the area and had already contacted the Minister for Justice seeking Federal Government support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Federal Government has a Safer Communities Fund with funding to address crime and anti social behaviour through security initiatives such as CCTV and lighting,\u201d Mr Chester said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have made representations to Latrobe City Council making them aware of this fund and encouraging them to lodge an application when it opens later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI applaud the efforts of Morwell traders and residents to work together and come up with solutions to help move forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Morwell community has my support and I will work with all levels of government to try and secure funding for additional CCTV cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester is supporting a local campaign to address community safety in the Morwell Central Business District. Two recent community forums have called for a more visible police presence and the installation of closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) in Morwell \u201chotspots\u201d where crime was common. Mr Chester said he supported calls [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1898,46],"tags":[2177,2178,189,2176],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darrenchester.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}