Venezuela. A total of 199 new cameras will be incorporated this year into the new video surveillance system applied in Caracas, through the Emergency Care Security Center 171, as announced by the Minister for Interior Relations and Justice, Néstor Reverol.
He mentioned that with these cameras the 500 of this type of devices activated in all the parishes of the Venezuelan capital will be completed. To date there are 301 cameras.
For the creation of the Emergency Care Security Center 171, which is based in Sabana Grande, the National Government invested 15 million bolivars (about US$2.4 million). The main purpose is to optimize all video surveillance processes in the Capital District, the minister recalled.
Reverol recalled that from that center the 11 main streams of Caracas are monitored in real time by telemetry: Catuche, Agua China, Cambural, Blandín, La Vencedora, Cotiza and Anauco, among others, in order to obtain early warnings in case of overflows.
This center also has a call center, composed of operators who work 24 hours a day, and who are responsible for transferring calls to 40 dispatchers of the different State security bodies.
The new security center also has a GPS system for 750 units, both firefighters and civil protection, and the different citizen security agencies, in order to monitor the units that are closest to the incident that is reported to be attended to more quickly.
