El Salvador. The mayor of San Salvador, Norman Quijano, inaugurated the Monitoring and Video Surveillance Center, which aims to reduce the rates of violence in this city.
In this center will be collected images captured from 70 cameras that have been installed in different parts of the municipality; it will remain active 24 hours a day and there will always be an agent monitoring the images.
In total, 20 members of the Metropolitan Agents Corps (CAM) were trained for three weeks to follow up on each of the intervened areas, which were defined based on the information collected at the Municipal Violence Observatory.
The monitoring center will work 24 hours a day and the cameras have mechanisms to work at night, so during low light hours, they generate images quite clearly.
This project has been executed with funds from international cooperation and the capital commune, although Quijano did not reveal more details of the investment amount.
The authorities of the commune reported that they are still preparing the protocol of the cooperation agreement that they will sign with the Attorney General's Office, so that the images captured by the cameras can be used in investigations.
