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Type
Report a stolen vehicle
Your report is posted without your name. Report the theft to Police on 105 as well, and add the file number below if you have it.
Report something else
A break-in, damage, a burglary — anything that isn't a stolen vehicle, where nearby cameras might have caught something. This stays private: your address and details go to the noticeboard admin only. Camera owners nearby are told the type of incident, the suburb and when, so they know which footage to check.
Recent notices
Nothing posted in the last 30 days.
CCTV Registry
Register a camera and you'll see footage requests for thefts and sightings near it. Only the noticeboard admin can see where your cameras are and how to reach you. You can register more than one camera — for example, a second site at a different address.
Your cameras
About
Firefighters, fight fires with water.
Police, fight crime with evidence.
The Security Noticeboard Charitable Trust is an organisation built to support victims of crime by bringing the community together to discuss, co-operate and share information in regard to local criminal activity.
The Security Noticeboard also manages a series of CCTV networks and provides assistance to local community groups and other charities in designing and installing additional CCTV systems in areas being targeted by criminal activity.
Can you help victims of crime in your community?
Police can only make charges based on the evidence available.
Can you help, by being a part of finding that evidence?
CCTV, dashcam footage, cell phone footage and personal sightings can all be used as evidence.
will you be one of the thousands of locals contributing daily to help victims of crime by providing valuable evidence to police enabling them to make reliable charges to get these criminals off our streets.
NOTE: Once we have the ability to do so (waiting on security clearance), we will be offering Member benefits such as: Priority CCTV assistance. Regular updates regarding security concerns in your area. Advise, tips and new security related devices or processes. Beta access to the planned “security response mobile application” once released for testing. Members will also be invited to co-operation events, planned to be held every 3 months in the Hutt Valley.
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Service Policy
Last updated: 28 September 2026.
Security Noticeboard — Privacy Policy
This policy explains what Security Noticeboard ("the noticeboard", "we", "us") collects, why, and who can see it. It's written for the ordinary visitor, not a lawyer — if anything below is unclear, use the contact details at the end.
- What we collect
- Camera and plate-recognition checks
- Who can see what
- Sharing with others
- How long we keep it
- Keeping it secure
- Accuracy of information
- Your rights
- Contact and changes
What this noticeboard is
Security Noticeboard is a community stolen-vehicle noticeboard, currently covering the Hutt Valley and expanding — first across the wider Wellington region, then the North Island, with the aim of covering all of New Zealand over time. It publishes vehicle theft reports (from the community and from the New Zealand Police stolen-vehicle register), lets people add sightings and updates, and connects reports with a private network of camera owners who've volunteered to check their footage on request. It is not operated by, or on behalf of, the New Zealand Police, and it is not an emergency service — if something is happening now, call 111.
What we collect, and why
Stolen-vehicle reports and sightings are public and anonymous. When you report a vehicle stolen, add a sighting, or add a detail to an existing report, we publish the vehicle, location and description information you provide. We don't ask for or store your name, email or phone number against the report itself. We do keep:
- A salted, one-way hash of your IP address, used only to enforce fair-use limits (so one connection can't flood the board with reports) — never your actual IP address, and never shown to anyone.
- A one-time token, stored as a hash, so the browser that filed a report can later mark it recovered without creating an account.
Other incident reports are private by default. A report of a break-in, damage or similar (not a stolen vehicle) is not published. It goes only to the noticeboard's administrators and, if you switch on footage requests, to camera owners within the distance you set — who are only ever told the type of incident, the suburb, and a distance rounded up to the nearest 100 metres, never the address. You can choose to make a short public notice from it (incident type, suburb and date only), and separately choose to include a street name and number in that public notice.
If you register a CCTV camera, we collect its approximate location, what it can see, how long you keep footage, your name, and a way to reach you (and optionally a cell number). This is stored privately against your account and is only ever visible to you and to a noticeboard administrator — it is never included in anything public. You can register more than one camera on the same account. If we verify a camera and its recorded location is then moved by more than about 50 metres, it automatically drops back to unverified, since verification is tied to a specific place.
Your own camera system is your responsibility. Registering it here doesn't mean we've reviewed, approved or vetted how you run it. Signage, footage retention, and your own compliance with the Privacy Act 2020 — including the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's guidance on CCTV — are entirely yours to get right. We broker footage requests between reporters and camera owners; we accept no responsibility or liability for how an individual owner's camera system is installed, operated or maintained.
Urgent reports — a one-tap "something is happening right now" feature — are only available to specific people we've individually approved and trained. If you're one of them and you use it, we collect the video you record and your location at the time, and send an immediate alert to verified camera owners nearby (never to the public). This feature is off by default for every account and only turned on for someone once we've granted it. A recording like this is filmed in a public place by a member of the public, not covert surveillance, but it can end up including other people nearby as well as the vehicle or incident itself — access to it stays locked down to the verified camera owners it's sent to and the noticeboard's administrators, and it's deleted automatically after 30 days.
If you create an account (needed to register a camera, or to be granted Urgent reporting), WordPress collects the usual account information — username, email address, and a hashed password — under WordPress's own account handling.
We use a small amount of automated anti-abuse data across all our forms: a hidden field that only a script would fill in, a signed timestamp, and — if enabled — a Cloudflare Turnstile check. These exist to stop automated spam and don't identify you personally.
Location is only ever collected when you actively provide it — dropping a pin, searching an address, or tapping "use my location". We don't collect device location in the background or without your action.
We also receive information from third parties, specifically:
- The New Zealand Police published stolen-vehicle register (a public data feed), which we use to confirm and cross-reference community reports.
- CarJam, if you use the "fill from CarJam" lookup on the report form — we send the plate you typed and receive back basic vehicle details (make, model, year, colour, body style, and whether it's flagged stolen). We only keep the fields the form actually uses, cached for 30 days, and none of CarJam's more detailed data (VIN, ownership history, WOF history, odometer) is stored or shown.
Camera network and plate-recognition checks
Separately from the public camera network above, the noticeboard's administrator operates a small number of its own licence-plate-recognition (LPR) cameras. Filing a report, or a plate becoming confirmed stolen on the Police register, may cause an automatic check of these cameras for that plate. This is not a live tracking system and does not scan traffic generally — it is one targeted check per confirmed theft, rechecked on a schedule for a limited period while the vehicle remains listed as stolen.
- If your own report produces a match, we tell you only that the vehicle has been seen, along with a reference number you can give to Police — never a location, time, camera or image. This only reaches you if you filed while signed in; anonymous reports have no way for us to contact you.
- Police can use that reference to request the underlying material from us directly.
- The plate close-up, scene image and (where available) video clip are only ever accessible to specifically approved private investigators holding a current security licence, logged against their access, and only through a gated, single-use, time-limited release process — never a direct download from the app, and never to the public.
- This matched material is kept for eight weeks from the date of the match, then deleted. A record of who accessed or requested access to it — including refused attempts — is kept for longer, since that log holds no imagery itself.
Camera owners in the separate, public-facing camera network described above are never asked to check footage as a result of this process — the two systems are independent, and a camera you register yourself is never queried by it.
Who can see what
| Audience | What they can see |
|---|---|
| The public | Published stolen-vehicle reports, sightings, added details, and public incident notices. Never a camera owner's identity, an incident's address, or anything about LPR matching. |
| A reporter (signed in) | Their own reports, whether a camera owner has offered footage, and — if applicable — that an LPR check found the vehicle, with a Police reference number. |
| A camera owner | Footage requests within range of their own camera(s) only: the suburb, distance, and time window. Never an incident's exact address unless they're a verified owner who specifically requests it, which is logged. |
| Noticeboard administrators | All reports, incidents, the camera register (locations and contact details), and footage offers. Not LPR match material or private-investigator access on the strength of being an administrator alone. |
| Approved private investigators | LPR match previews (plate close-up only) and, through the gated release process, full match material for plates they've been asked to check — only once granted this specifically, with a security licence on file. |
| New Zealand Police | Whatever they request directly from us using a reference number, and the register data they publish that we already display. |
Sharing with others
We don't sell personal information. We do share the following, only in the ways described:
- Facebook — reports may be posted automatically to our Facebook Page, and from there shared onward at our discretion (for example, to a community Facebook group). Posted content is what's already public on the report; camera owner details, incident addresses and footage-offer information are never included.
- Crime Stoppers — if this is switched on, and only for reports where you don't opt out, a report may be forwarded to Crime Stoppers by email. This never includes a reporter's contact details, the camera register, or footage-offer information.
- Google Maps — the map on our report and sighting forms is provided by Google. Nothing is sent to Google until you actively place a pin or search an address.
- CarJam — the plate you look up is sent to CarJam to retrieve basic vehicle details, as described above.
- New Zealand Police — as described above, on request using a reference number, or where we're otherwise required to by law.
Some of these providers (Facebook, Google, CarJam) are based, or store data, outside New Zealand. We've reviewed each of these providers' own data-handling policies and published security practices, and are satisfied they protect information to a standard comparable to what we'd expect here — but if this matters to you, avoid using the CarJam lookup and be aware that a published report may be shared to Facebook.
How long we keep information
| Information | Kept for |
|---|---|
| A stolen-vehicle report | Until recovered or deleted by the reporter/administrator |
| An incident report (private) | Indefinitely, for the admin record; public notice text as published |
| Camera registration details | Until removed by the owner or an administrator |
| LPR matched footage and images | 8 weeks from the match date |
| LPR access log (no imagery) | 7 years |
| Disclosure log (camera register) | 7 years |
| Urgent-report videos | 30 days |
| CarJam lookup cache | 30 days |
| Police register entries | Up to 6 months, per the Police's own published register |
| IP hashes / anti-abuse records | Rolling, typically hours to a few days |
Keeping information secure
Camera registration and incident details are stored privately and never included in anything the public site or its public API returns. LPR matched footage sits behind a gated release process requiring an approved licence, a one-time password, and a link that only works for the account that requested it, once, within a short window. All access — successful or refused — is logged. We run our own server rather than a shared host, and apply the usual practical safeguards (encrypted connections, rate-limiting, and automated blocking of abusive traffic) but no system is perfectly secure, and we can't guarantee it.
Accuracy of information
Every effort is made to keep what's on the noticeboard true and accurate, based on the information provided to us and the judgement of the licensed security professionals reviewing it. We're human, and mistakes happen — a detail can be wrong, or a report can turn out to have been based on inaccurate information. If you notice, or are told about, a discrepancy, please report it to our admin team in writing at errors@securitynoticeboard.co.nz so it can be corrected or resolved in a timely manner.
Your rights
Under the Privacy Act 2020, you can ask what personal information we hold about you and ask us to correct it. Contact us using the details below. We may need to verify who you are before releasing or changing anything, and some information (for example, another person's private contact details) may not be something we can share with you.
Contact, and changes to this policy
Questions about this policy, or a request about your information, can be sent to hello@securitynoticeboard.co.nz. We may update this policy as the noticeboard changes; the date at the top shows when it was last revised.