After successfully raising close to $45,000, Lloyd said more would be installed shortly and he was confident there were enough funds to add more to the network.
"The money's still trickling in, so we might even have 12 cameras by the time we're finished," Lloyd said. A lot of the cost had been IT work to enable the cameras to transmit the footage to Waipukurau police station.
Some static cameras had cost $500-$600 while others that form part of the network, such as the licence capturing cameras and those which can automatically track and zoom in on any movement - like a person walking through a car park at night - had cost up to $2500 each, said Lloyd.
"They can zoom right in. They're magnificent, absolutely state-of-the-art," he said.
The vehicle licence-capturing cameras will cover the highways leading in and out of both Waipukurau and Waipawa to capture car number plates and "lock the towns in".
Constable Sharp said the high-tech cameras would be useful crime-solving tools.
"Say if someone fills up at Caltex in Waipukurau and shoots off to Hastings without paying and they drive past one of these cameras and we have their number plate, all we need to do is type the number plate into the computer and it will search through the footage and find that car. It will save hours of work," he said.