Residents and business owners on Cullera Street (Latina), Calero Park (Ciudad Lineal) and Pradolongo Park (Usera) will be able to sleep a little more peacefully at the end of next year. In response to their complaints and the needs of the security forces themselves, the Governing Council of Madrid City Hall plans to authorize this Thursday the contract for the supply and installation for the Municipal Police of new video surveillance systems in these places.
The Cullera street conflict is associated with the rise of narcotics’ apartments in usurped and officially protected houses where the Cañada Real clans transferred a good part of their cocaine and heroin trade. On the other hand, in the case of Parque Calero and Pradolongo, the objective is to put an end to the activity of Latin gangs. “These cameras are necessary because of their deterrent effect and the problems that can arise,” explained this Wednesday Inmaculada Sanz, vice mayor of the city, during the inauguration of the new space created at the La Almudena cemetery for babies died before being born. .
In total, the Town Hall will install 37 new cameras: 18 in Cullera Street, 14 in Pradolongo Park and 5 in Calero Park. These new cameras will be equipped with artificial intelligence, which will make it possible to anticipate possible behaviors threatening security and coexistence and pursue them more appropriately. Some of them will also be dedicated to the recognition of license plates, detailed the town hall.
The contract consisting of three lots which will be the subject of a call for tenders will result in a total disbursement of two million euros, and will have a completion time of 5, 6 and 8 months for each of the three lots, starting January 1, 2025. “We will try to accelerate the deadlines as much as possible, but the development of these projects requires between six and eight months , because it is necessary to carry out the project, execute it, request the corresponding authorizations from the video surveillance commission so that the cameras comply with the law and the data protection law.
These video surveillance systems are centrally controlled by the Municipal Police, from a specific space (the Integrated Video Signaling Center -CISEVI-) where all video signals are received and where, thanks to a management platform, the Police operators can carry out the corresponding care operation. .
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In addition, soon, with the prior agreement of the Video Surveillance Commission, theThe 16 rooms of the Plaza del Dos de Mayo (Center) and 15 Plaza Elíptica (Usera/Carabanchel), two electoral commitments. Last year, the local government also strengthened video surveillance at Puerta del Sol, where it installed, taking advantage of its renovation, four additional cameras to add to the three already operational.
During the previous term, Almeida’s first as mayor, video surveillance was one of the City Hall’s security commitments and they installed a total of 111 camerasa third of all those in the city operated by the municipal police, in the neighborhoods of Bellas Vistas (Tetuán), San Diego (Puente de Vallecas), the industrial zone of Marconi (Villaverde), Lavapiés and Chueca. In addition, they renewed the Montera street network and the Lavapiés and Ballesta street networks.
