Pacific

Cameras installed at schools in Tahiti to curb crime

15:01 pm on 15 February 2019

The French Polynesian government says surveillance video cameras will be installed at ten high schools on the island of Tahiti.

Photo: RNZ / Richard Tindiller

It said this follows a crime prevention council meeting in November.

It said it had been established that preventing delinquency within the school environment was a major point for action for French Polynesia and the French state.

The cost of the cameras is in excess of $US1 million, with the French Polynesian and the French governments sharing the expenditure.