Mexico. One out of every three businesses that exist in Mexico City has suffered a robbery, so the fraction of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District (ALDF) proposed to modify the Law of Commercial Establishments so that surveillance video cameras are installed inside and outside these buildings and inhibit public insecurity.
In the tribune of the ALDF, the coordinator of the PRI caucus, Armando Tonatiuh González, said that several individuals who have committed robbery of a business have been arrested thanks to the videographic material they have delivered to the authorities; however, there are few commercial establishments that until now have this type of technological advances.
He said that in the 16 delegations there is a record of approximately 380,988 businesses, but that it is estimated that only about 10,000 have video cameras inside their premises.
Therefore, he proposed to modify articles 10 and 11 of the Law on Commercial Establishments so that all businesses in this city are obliged to install a closed-circuit surveillance system inside and outside their properties, while prohibiting the owners of these places from marketing the recordings obtained or seeking compensation for this material when requested by the authority.
