Argentina. The municipality of Rosario will install 77 new video surveillance cameras to monitor public spaces. In total, about a hundred supports will be in operation in the busiest and most strategic places in the city.
There are currently 23 cameras working. The first 20 were installed during the administration of former mayor Miguel Lifschitz and the other three at the beginning of the year on the northern waterfront, especially to prevent car races. Of the 80 tendered at the end of 2011, some 77 remain to be installed and will be located in the next 60 days, after having completed the process of awarding the fiber optic connection.
It was also known that the first spaces where the facilities will be made are the corridors where the exclusive lanes work, in Santa Fe, San Lorenzo, Laprida and Maipú streets. There will be about six cameras that will be rotating, and not fixed to prevent citizens from knowing where they are permanently and only act correctly in those corners. It was highlighted that these are potentially conflictive spaces, not only in terms of traffic faults but also in terms of other municipal contraventions.
