fleeing crime scenes.

“We are looking at this as a true regional program,” Kepley said.

Sheriff’s Department statistics show the numbers of burglaries went up in three of the four Palos Verdes Peninsula cities from 2014 to 2015:

• Palos Verdes Estates recorded 82 burglaries in 2015, a 58 percent increase from the 52 in 2014.

• Rancho Palos Verdes recorded 208 in 2015, compared to 180 in 2014, a nearly 16 percent increase.

• Rolling Hills stayed even at nine each year.

• Rolling Hills Estates climbed from 26 in 2014 to 48 in 2015, an 85 percent increase.

Rancho Palos Verdes officials last month approved the covert placement of GPS trackers by sheriff’s deputies on vehicles suspected in multiple crimes. And in December, the city moved ahead with a proposal to install sixSouth and 25th Street (to replace pilot cameras) and four cameras for Palos Verdes Drive West near Marguerite Drive.

• Rolling Hills Estates: Ten to 12 cameras for Crenshaw Boulevard and Palos Verdes Drive North, eight cameras for Hawthorne Boulevard and Palos Verdes Drive North, and eight to 10 cameras for Palos Verdes Drive North and Palos Verdes Drive East.

• Rolling Hills: Three cameras inbound at each of the city’s entrances.

• Palos Verdes Estates: Three cameras at Palos Verdes Drive West/Palos Verdes Boulevard entrance coming into the city from Torrance and two cameras at Via Valmonte, coming in from Hawthorne Boulevard.

The majority of the cameras would be placed in Rolling Hills Estates “due to its strategic location as the gateway to the Peninsula and highly trafficked intersections,” the staff