Not only order traffic in the city, reduce the accident rate or, as some critics say, “collect”. For the municipality of Rosario, the assembled structure with a high investment to fix the photo (defined as) electronic traffic violation detection system) This helped a lot To counter another major calamity that worries Rosario: Insecurity.
70 cameras installed across the city, four mobile points and five totem Will officially start working in mid-October According to the Secretary of Modernization and Proximity to the Municipality, German Giro, a high security componentsbecause they will save Qualified information to prosecutors and the provincial ministry of security To investigate crimes and locate vehicles with arrest warrants, even in real time.
“For us it’s a systema dual: that is, it has two main purposes”, said Giro in. am PM on radio 2. “One is order traffic: We know no one likes to be fined, but We need to reduce the high accident rated What we have Every year, about 4,000 people enter municipal impactors for traffic accidents, and we need to reduce that number. The second objective is to contribute to public safety.Providing images to be stored in 70 different locations in the city, and reading license plates in real time via 911, in a work of expression whose mode we are still defining,” he said.
For Giro, it is the manner in which the municipality has to make its contribution in a matter in which it has no capacity: “We can’t take concrete action nor do we have police power, but we can set up the technical infrastructure and make it available to the Ministry of Security and prosecutors, in the same way as the cameras already in the city.” With the system, 150 of which are ours,” he remarked.
According to what was explained by the technical team working on the assembly of the structure in the city, “These are not cameras we knew before: a radar that took a picture of you and nothing else. They are more complex units,
“They will have a camera that will read the license plate at all times and in real time, with the idea that the ministry can receive immediate alerts of a car license plate with an arrest warrant, stolen cars or a vehicle that is part of an investigation. In turn, there will be another camera that will capture obstructions with artificial intelligence: if you step on a bike lane or pass a red light, for example. And there will be one Additional cameras, such as video surveillance, that will record at all times, the idea is that Surveillance 911 . is associated withThat’s what all the municipal chambers see,” he said.
totem poles
Totems will be at five specific places in Rosario which will identify the vehicles with their respective license plates and immediately inform the motorist about the speed at which they are moving (next to their domain) on a giant screen so that, if it exceeds the permissible speed, They can download it. But they will also be essential in locating the motorcycles or cars under investigation.
“These giant screens are integrated into the electronic breach detection system and their function will be Identify passing vehicles, read their license platesAnd like all the other chambers of the city, Information will be exchanged with the Ministry of Security To serve in the identification of vehicles with arrest warrants in real time”, emphasized Giro.
Another close up of the equipment’s installation highlighted that “Images of a certain location will be available at a certain time in the prosecutor’s office And you will be able to know if a car has passed a certain place in the past, because everything is registered. They give us a patent, they tell us ‘I want to know where this car went, what was its route’ and we can give a report about the places that particular vehicle passed.
totem, element informative and depressing Since they will not mark violations, they are also intended for locating a motorcycle license plate“Although we know there are many in irregular situations with drivers who pretend they have not been detected”, Giro said.
The totem in question is Parque Independencia (Bulever Orono, direction north-south), La Florida (Avenida Columbus, Parque Alem, south-north), Amphitheater area (Avenida Belgrano 182 bis, direction south-north), Parque Sanchales (Estanislao López 2472, east -West direction, and between Avenida President Perón Circunvalacione and Provincius Unidas, West-East direction.
a safety ring
The municipality came out this week to state that the system will have a more important mission than ordering traffic and raising money for the Transportation Compensation Fund or Public Health: Contribute to the safety of the cityWhere robberies, explosions and other violent demonstrations are common in all the neighborhoods.
An adviser to Mayor Javkin told Rosario 3: “Many people say the sole intention of the Photo Fine system is to collect money and they ask us ‘Why don’t they install cameras for video surveillance?’ The reality is that the system has a lot on security, with We have cameras with more technology than we do today,
Finally, the Secretary of Modernization, German Giro, commented: “With the launch of these cameras A true circle of security will be created over the entire area of the city, We want to reduce the accident rate, but also contribute to safety. That’s how we’re contributing to what’s within our reach.”
