Toulouse.How the city wants to go further against delinquency with mobile cameras

By Anthony Assemat published leactu toulousevoir my news

Video surveillance takes an additional step in Toulouse.Friday June 18, 2021, the Toulouse municipal council must vote for deliberation 12.3, which provides for the "deployment of mobile video protection cameras".

"Respond to residents' concerns"

Concretely, this type of cameras responds to several challenges for the town hall, which wishes to be more flexible and more reactive in its hunt for criminal acts and in the face of the geographic evolution of crime in town."In order, on the one hand, to immediately respond to the concerns of local residents in the face of the emergence of new phenomena that come to swarm their daily lives, but also, in order to provide immediate support to the security forces, the municipal police willEquip with 10 4G/5G mobile cameras, "it is indicated on the deliberation.

Cost of the system: 109,000 euros plus 70,000 euros in subscription per year, sum which corresponds to an unlimited 4G package.

For punctual security problems, also

Advantage of these mobile cameras: "They can be installed immediately according to the need, without civil engineering work or connection to the network, but simply through a GSM chip.It will allow video surveillance to be deported to any place in the city, saving the more expensive installation of a camera connected to the network.

These cameras will discreetly support national police surveys, will ensure the safety of major events in addition to existing cameras or monitor places affected by a punctual security problem, ”specifies the municipality in deliberation.

These mobile cameras will not fall within the field of videoverbalization, a system implemented in 2017 in the hypercentre, on a perimeter delimited by the belt of the boulevards, and which led to 11,000 tickets in 2020.

450 cameras in Toulouse

Currently, Toulouse is equipped with 450 "classic" video surveillance cameras. Réélu en juin 2020, Jean-Luc Moudenc, le maire de la 4^e ville de France, s’était engagé à continuer le déploiement de ces caméras."Our project is to install at least a hundred more during the mandate," said Emilion Esnault, deputy mayor in charge of security.Last May, the elected official had indicated in Actu Toulouse that by the end of June 2021, six other devices were going to be put into service: 3, Sept-Deniers sector/Route de Blagnac/Ernest-Wallon, 1, rueRaphaël, in the Izards (near the Rigal stadium), 1 rue du Lot, Bagatelle district, and 1 on the track of Montaudran Aerospace.