LORD Mayor Robert Doyle has described as "trivial" concerns by Victoria's privacy watchdog about the use of CCTV cameras in Melbourne. Privacy Commissioner Helen Versey said she was concerned about the extension of the city's surveillance camera program. Melbourne City Council's Future Melbourne Committee is reviewing policy on its Safe City Camera Program. The final report is due next month, but an interim report presented to the committee this month recommended a broadening of infringements monitored by the city's 54 CCTV cameras. Future Melbourne (people and creative city) committee chair Jennifer Kanis told the Herald Sun on Wednesday the policy would be reviewed "bylaw by bylaw". Littering was an example of a minor infringement that could be subject to surveillance under the new policy. But Cr Doyle disagreed with his colleague yesterday, saying "this is not about council bylaws". "There is no City of Melbourne proposal to use the CCTV cameras to monitor dogs off leash or littering and never was," he said. In a written submission to the council last month, Ms Versey questioned using CCTV cameras to enforce local laws. "For example, how would SCCP imagery be used to detect and prosecute an individual for littering, or letting a dog off a leash?" she asked. Cr Doyle said: "The Privacy Commissioner is supposed to focus on the serious issues of privacy, but instead she has trivialised this into an area where it was never meant to go".