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THE Cairns CitySafe network is to be extended to Ports North’s property on the waterfront.

The council will enter a Memorandum of Understanding with the port authority to add more cameras, particularly in the boardwalk restaurant precinct to prevent blindspots.

Children’s entertainer Emma Memma visited the youngsters, from left: Miller Hodges, Wynter Hodges, Surum Drummond and Braxron Penrose, at Child’s World Early Learning Centre earlier this week before her show at the Tanks Art Centre on August 5.

Mayor Bob Manning said the council was “deeply concerned about law and order matters”, particularly earlier this month after a group of children rampaged on the boardwalk, allegedly assaulting restaurant staff and stealing property. He said there were no cameras in the area but the CitySafe network a short time later tracked the group who were picked up by police and dealt with.

Restaurateurs have started paying for security patrols in the area.