Peru. Jéssica Vargas, mayor of Barranco, presented the district's new video surveillance center, which has 16 cameras installed at strategic points in order to prevent criminal acts, monitor them and act immediately in the face of alert calls.
The monitoring center is located in the Municipal Palace and the cameras have been placed in the vicinity of the Plaza Butters, the Balta Oval, the Bajada de los Baños, the Luis Gálvez Chipoco stadium, the Grau/Piérola avenues, Lima, El Sol Este, Grau (block 5), San Martín and the Talana and Mariano de los Santos shreds.
Vargas said he hopes that by the end of the year there will be 25 more cameras and said that they will also put equipment in educational centers.
The cameras have a rotation of 360 degrees, a range of 200 meters and even at night they reach sharpness in the visualization.
"According to the statistics given to us by the National Police, crimes have decreased by 45%. In this month of testing here, at the points where there is a camera installed, it has dropped by 90%. Like the criminal knows that the camera is there and avoids committing crimes," Vargas said.
