DEBATE surrounding the fees imposed on police and the public for accessing CCTV footage is set to be re-ignited at the next Griffith City Council meeting.

Councillors Bill Lancaster and Christine Stead have signalled intentions to lodge a notice of motion at the meeting on July 14 to give councillors an opportunity to reconsider their decision to charge potentially more than $1000 for copies of CCTV video.

The announcement comes after police, who had previously received the footage free of charge, raised concerns that the new policy would prohibit them from obtaining footage and result in crime rates rising in the CBD.

When the double standard of council charging the public but not police for footage was raised at the June 23 meeting, Cr Lancaster and Cr Stead moved an amendment that the fees be waived for both parties.

However, that amendment was defeated and replaced by one stipulating that from July 1 the police and public would be charged equally.

But Cr Lancaster said there were matters that had subsequently emerged that he and Cr Stead felt warranted more discussion by the council.

"I think there are issues that weren't before us at the time of the last meeting that are worth going into," he said.

"We'll be moving that the CCTV fees be suspended pending further investigation and that way the rest of the budget can come into effect.

"There are also things in relation to the compatibility of the CCTV system with the court's system that have been raised since the meeting that need to be looked at as well."

Acting mayor Dom Testoni said while it would be an interesting debate, the fact remained that compiling CCTV footage and burning it to discs for either police or the public was an expensive exercise.

"Before any comment was made I think everyone including (The Area News) should have sat down with council staff and seen the process that must be gone through," Cr Testoni said.

"The storage capacity on that system is something like 20 or 30 terabytes, so it's not a matter of just popping in a disc and pressing a button. There's a lot more to it than that.

"But obviously if there's a better way of doing things then council should look at doing that."