Peru. Eight video surveillance cameras are not operational, of the twenty-two that had been acquired a little less than two years ago by the commune of the district of Castilla, in Piura.
According to the district mayor Luis Ramírez Ramírez, the project to purchase the implementation of the cameras has not contemplated the guarantee item, so now at least 300 thousand soles (about US $ 96 thousand) are needed for their repair and maintenance. Only 16 are operational, so there is a deficit in the fight against citizen insecurity.
"We wanted to turn to the supplier and we were surprised that the contract does not say anything about warranty, maintenance or repair. Now we are going to hire a new supplier and that will cost the municipality expenses," said the mayor.
The budget is part of the maintenance program, and will come out of the current expense. The burgomaster said that to help the Police fight crime in the convulsed district, a greater number of Serenazgo personnel have been hired, and in May they will reach a hundred uniformed personnel, in addition to preparing a project to acquire 60 more cameras in alliance with private enterprise.
"We have this project with Telefónica to enable cameras giving internet to different schools. The project costs us one million two hundred thousand soles (about US$380 thousand), but the cameras will cost more than two million soles (about US$680 thousand)," he said.
