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Applications submitted for security cameras after agreement between Free State Agriculture and Fidelity

Free State Agriculture’s (FSA) agricultural associations and area offices can now apply for the costs for setting up camera systems in their areas. For this, FSA and Fidelity ADT, with whom an agreement was initiated in April 2019 to address crime prevention, have designed a pro forma application form and quotations can be requested in this way.

According to Dr Jane Buys, Safety and Risk Analyst at FSA, these forms will soon be sent to agricultural associations and area offices. It must be returned to FSA, who will also inform its regional safety representatives about it, after which it will be forwarded to Fidelity ADT. A Fidelity representative will take it further and give info back to the FSA’s Safety Committee to communicate with the relevant agricultural association or area office.

“The reason for this specific process is to make sure that a problem can be followed up,” says Buys. “The aim is also to keep record of the whole process on paper, how it is progressing and whether it has been completed successfully.”

According to Jakkals le Roux, Chair of the Rural Safety Committee at FSA, applications for camera systems in rural areas will first focus on national, primary, secondary and tertiary roads. For GPS readings, the “degrees, minutes and seconds” system should be used, he says.

Quotations should not be made unnecessarily expensive, with wrong or extra installations. Particularly where so-called expensive License Plate Recognition cameras are to be installed, it must be indicated as a primary access and exit route.

For completing the application form where GPS points are needed, Google Maps can be used to access the GPS reading. Here, the “degrees, minutes and seconds” system should be used. It must be indicated on the application form, as well as which electrical power point is available and whether solar panels are going to be used.

  • Application forms and quotes for funding from Agri Securitas have its own procedure and forms to be completed. The rural safety plan, as well as when an exercise took place, forms part of this and must be communicated to the FSA Safety Committee via the region’s safety representative. This committee will then forward it to Agri SA.
  • Buys says it is also important to note that agricultural associations and area offices must obtain insurance for such camera systems.

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