Argentina. The Operational Control Center (CCO) of the Urban Video Surveillance System is operated by the Cordoba Police to monitor and record the footage of the surveillance cameras installed in various parts of the city of Córdoba.
In some critical places where the cameras are, the number of crimes was reduced by more than 50 percent, according to the police. Since mid-2010, it monitors and records all the footage coming from the cameras and surveillance domes, located in different sectors of the public roads of this Capital.
This year, the Province announced the installation of 60 surveillance cameras in schools in the city, which will be added to the 91 already existing. For the control of these images, the Unicameral sanctioned Law 9,380 that provides that, once the images are captured, they can be stored for a year at the disposal of the Justice, provided that they have to do with a crime or a severe contravention.
According to the Police, with this technology it is possible to arrest about 1,200 people per month. The chief commissioner Claudio Vignetta estimated, a few months ago, that in critical places where the cameras are, the number of crimes was reduced by more than 50 percent. "An emblematic area is the Plaza de las Américas, which has the town of El Pocito nearby. There was a complicated passage and we managed to eliminate almost the crimes," he said.
The system is controlled from the Police Station. Each operator displays between four and five cameras. When they detect something, they contact the police district to act. Of the 91 cameras, 61 are domes with 360-degree image (13 at the Mario Kempes Stadium). The rest, fixed cameras, almost all in hospitals.
