Mexico. Soon the video surveillance systems of the State Government and the City of Guadalajara that are installed in the municipality will be interconnected, which will allow their respective security secretariats to begin sharing their visual records to prevent and combat crime.
The Secretariat of Citizen Security of Guadalajara reported that it has 140 cameras in operation in the municipality, while the State Secretariat of Public Security has at its disposal in that municipality another 190.
The municipal president of Guadalajara, Francisco Ayón López, said that the municipality of Guadalajara will be the first in the metropolis to achieve this full articulation with the video surveillance system of the State Secretariat of Public Security, and that this will not be projected only in the mutual transmission of images of the city between both security agencies, but municipal staff will also be integrated into the state monitoring center.
If the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Guadalajara monitors the city from its Cecoe, the State Secretariat of Public Security does so from the Strategic Center for Police Information (Ceipol) that is located in its central offices, but only while a definitive headquarters is built in which the two agencies work together.
The mayor concluded: "Guadalajara and the State Government will be the first to already have the technology parameters being able to work specifically in the two areas of security. It does not matter if the resources are municipal or state, or if it is the Secretary of State or the municipality, what matters is the safety of the people of Tapatíos and Jalisco and on that we will continue to work."
The cameras are installed as follows: In Guadalajara 190, in Zapopan 98, in Tonalá 31, in Tlaquepaque 58, in Tlajomulco 14, in El Salto 12 and in adjoining municipalities 22, which gives a total of 425 for the city, as reported by the State Secretariat of Public Security.
The rest of the equipment, 229 cameras, were distributed in the Pan American venues, but were scheduled to be relocated after the 2011 international fair.
