Colombia. The initial value of the contract was $30.924 billion pesos (US$9.1 million). After modifications and additions, its total value amounts to $40,277 million (US$11.9 million). This contract has money from the Surveillance and Security Fund (FVS), the District Education Secretariat (SED) and 11 Local Development Funds.
Local media said that the purpose of the contract was to equip with facial recognition cameras and the latest technology, 57 patrols, 192 schools, 11 borders, 20 domes, and 38 motorcycles. All connected to the police command center. Today none of that works.
The audit carried out by the comptroller's office accounts for $23 billion ($6.8 million) that today is not known where they are, or in what they would have been invested irregularly.
According to the local news program CM&, the Comptroller's Office of Bogotá has detected two cases that constitute an alleged detrimental in Contract 620 of October 2010, signed between the Surveillance and Security Fund (FVS) and the company Verytel S.A. for the implementation of an integrated video surveillance system.
A first finding (in 2012) was for $5,154 million (US$1.5 million) for cost overruns in the acquisition of all the elements that compromise the Video Surveillance System.
Additionally, a recent audit determined another possible detriment worth $18.5 billion (US$5.4 million). The reason for this alleged detriment is that as of December 2015, and after five years, none of the five (5) subsystems that make up the Video Surveillance System works and there is no connection with the Police command center.
These subsystems should be monitored by the Metropolitan Police of Bogotá, through the Police Operational Command Centers (COSEC), which would be implemented and adapted in Puente Aranda, Kennedy and Ciudad Bolívar, but are currently not connected either.
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