After years of complaints around vandalism, public urination and excessive noise around Acadia University, the Town of Wolfville believes it has a solution.
A two-year pilot project has been proposed by council to install 11 street cameras in the downtown core, in an effort to deter crime and curb future problems.
Mayor Wendy Donovan says vandalism is not only expensive, it’s a public safety issue.
“In the last year we’ve had $12,000 of street signs that have been removed and have to be replaced,” she tells Global News.
“If any ambulance is trying to find somebody on Bay Street and they do not know where Bay Street is, then that street sign being down is time lost in an ambulance trying to get to someone.”
RCMP seem to be on board with the idea, too, calling it a potentially useful tool for evidence purposes.
Const. Jeff Wilson, a school safety resource and public information officer for Kings District RCMP, says police often respond to calls “within a couple kilometre radius” of the university