In the coming months SICE will install 41 security cameras in the critical area of Lima city centre, where the Peruvian parliament, Lima City Council building, chancellery, government building and other key public buildings of the country’s legislature and judiciary are located.
The video-surveillance system to be implemented by SICE, which is scheduled to come into
operation in mid-December, will allow improved security policies to be drawn up by the city council
in the heart of the city, which houses a large number of public building and tourist sites.
In this initial stage a total of 41 outdoor dome cameras (mobile PTZ cameras) will be erected
on 13-metre posts above ground level, distributed in four sectors of the Lima central zone, plus a
control centre to monitor the cameras’ output.
The communications network will be set up using underground fibre optics. The video signals
will transmit to the monitoring centre, where all the equipment necessary for viewing the images
will be housed — including monitors, video-management systems, operation stations for remote
control of the cameras, an image-recording system and many others.
The system will also allow images to be recorded from various different angles, to make it
possible to recreate incidents for subsequent analysis. The functionalities of the system include
the ability to preposition the mobile cameras automatically if triggered by an alarm or certain
event, analysis of the video content, the ability to hide certain areas from the camera’s field of
view for reasons of privacy or sensitivity, etc.
The options provided by a system of this kind are many and extremely useful, including:
- Monitoring the city: Images from the cameras serve as a tool to help operators to verify critical crime-related or other information by direct observation. (Certain circumstances can only be verified by means of direct observation.)
- Help with incident management: The video-surveillance systems play a key role in controlling and searching the various successive stages that follow an incident (detection, verification, information, response, etc.)
- Recording incidents: The system allows different situations to be recorded in such a way to enable them to be analysed later
- Monitoring weather conditions: The view of the local area of each camera helps weather conditions and their possible effect on people's safety to be checked.
