Turanga Library and the Riccarton Bus Lounge* were the top incident hotspots for 2024, according to the Christchurch City Council.
Video: Turanga, November 2024.
This data comes at a sensitive, as the council looks to renegotiate its security contract against a multi-million dollar budget and admits to holding no incident data prior to 2024.
The council said the “budgets $4.2 million per annum in 2024/25 for the provision of security services including static guard, alarm monitoring, response, patrol and cash transport services”.
It refused to provide a breakdown, stating that “this contract is due for renewal and is part way through a procurement process”.
*The Riccarton data might include both or either the building closest to Westfield Mall and a smaller lounge opposite Kathmandu.
Together they made up just over 80 percent of all incidents in 2024.
In November last year The NZR recorded a confrontation a few meters from the children’s play area on level 1 of Turanga (watch the film) at about 6pm that day.
Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trial
Subscribe to The New Zealand Reporter to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
