Mexico. Given the worrying increase in insecurity rates and the incidence of common law crime with "unacceptable" levels, the Government of Michoacán is already preparing the installation of a thousand surveillance cameras in Morelia and the interior of the State.
At a press conference, Jesús Reyna García, interim governor of Michoacán, revealed that 300 of these cameras will be located in the Michoacan capital, a municipality where the highest percentage of crimes is concentrated, and that these will be outside of those that the commune itself intends to implement.
He said that it will be in three months when the special center that will concentrate the information and operation of the security forces will be completed, an "adequate, efficient, with state-of-the-art technology" place that "will help fight criminals."
He also recognized the lack of response in a timely manner by the uniformed when there are complaints or requests for support from citizens, and trusted that such problems will be solved with the incorporation of this technology.
For Jesús Reyna -"maybe I'm wrong"-, each camera to be installed is "one more policeman who does not get tired, does not get distracted, who is 100 percent, does not eat, does not sleep, then, is one more vigilante to discourage the common criminal".
In the reception room of the Government Palace, the head of the Executive said that with the incorporation of this strategy to support the fight against insecurity, there will also be adjustments in other actions and programs that will allow to meet such objectives, such as the fact of correcting the situation that prevails in the centers of citizen attention, "There are some with only two or three policemen, so they don't even do their job."
Addressing the issue of insecurity as one of the four points he discussed in the press conference offered to the media, with which he opens his new way of attending to communicators, he said that for 15 days "we have established different operations, they have been joint, in which the bodies of the State Police participate with the support of the Federal Preventive Police and the Municipal Police, and we have managed in the last two weeks to reduce the incidence of crime."
He said the decision was made to install surveillance cameras, which "are an important element in combating crime." 300 will be installed in the city of Morelia, and another 700 cameras will be distributed in the main cities of the entity.
