Colombia. In order to give greater tools to the police to fight crime and, at the same time that the citizens have control over the actions they perform, a proposal was known to put special surveillance cameras on the uniforms.
What is intended is that their actions have a thorough record 24 hours a day, which, it is argued, would generate reliability in their task and greater control over daily activities against crime.
This model would be implemented in Medellín and, if it works, it would be proposed to the Government to deploy it at the national level. According to Gabriel Jaime Rico, former councilor of the capital of Antioquia and who is collecting signatures through 'Together for Medellín' to aspire to the mayor's office of the city, this project is being worked with international advice.
"We are going to put a webcam on each of our police officers and we will be monitoring 24 hours a day to know what they are doing, where they are doing it and see each of their procedures," Rico emphasized.
According to preliminary studies, which of course include a budget chapter, developing this initiative would cost close to 150,000 million pesos (US$57 million), which, according to the analysis, would come out of the city's security budgets.
"We have already traveled three times to the United States and we have met with a number of citizens of the intelligence agencies of that country, in office and retired, to work together on the issue," explained the candidate for mayor of Antioquia.
This proposal, which is also expected to be presented to the Government of President Juan Manuel Santos so that, if it admits it, it can be implemented at the national level, is accompanied by the increase in security cameras, a project that the Executive has already been developing under the coordination of the Ministry of the Interior.
