Mexico. The Secretariat of Public Security, Traffic and Roads of Pachuca prepares a diagnosis to identify the schools in the municipality most vulnerable to crime. There surveillance will be reinforced through the installation of cameras.
This was announced by the mayor of Pachuca, Eleazar García Sánchez, who explained that the project will be considered in the 2013 budget.
Meanwhile, the Municipal Security Secretariat conducts a census to determine the "areas of greatest criminal conflict" and determine the campuses that require the installation of permanent monitoring video cameras.
Asked about the investment, García Sánchez anticipated that it will be different technology from the one currently used by the city, although it will not be cutting-edge, like the one that is intended to be applied in the rest of the city: "simpler, but no less functional".
The popular representative said that the implementation of the C3 key currently does not operate "as a state capital requires," so, he said, it is sought to create a Professionalized Control Center "in a very important way" the following year.
With this strategy, he said, an immediate response is expected in terms of security, because currently, he evidenced, "the eyes of the city are not working as such," given that some of the video cameras are not functional. "They are not operating and some that do operate are already obsolete technology."
Regarding the acquisition of the cameras, he said that it is in the analysis stage to determine the best local and national proposals.
The leader added that the city currently has 30 surveillance cameras, but insisted that a significant number of them are not operating "and those that are operating, the image quality is not what we need today."
