The Madrid City Council will install video surveillance cameras on Cullera Street in the Latina district, as well as in Paradolongo Park in Usera, and in Calero Park in Ciudad Lineal, which will have artificial intelligence and are expected to be installed in March 2025. .
As reported this Monday by the newspaper El Mundo and confirmed by sources from the City Council’s Security Area, these new cameras will have artificial intelligence and, some of them, will be dedicated to license plate recognition. A total of 18 are expected to be installed on Cullera Street, while there will be five in Parque Calero. In Pradolongo Park, for its part, the exact number of cameras that will be installed has yet to be determined.
These new cameras join others already installed or in the installation phase by the City Council in other parts of the city so far this term. Specifically, video surveillance has been increased in Puerta del Sol due to its remodeling with the installation of four new cameras that joined the three existing ones.
This fall, in addition, new video surveillance systems will be put into service in the Plaza del Dos de Mayo (Centro) and in the Plaza Elíptica (Usera and Carabanchel), both electoral commitments of the municipal government. These two systems have a total budget already planned in the budgets for 2024 of 1.5 million euros. A total of 16 cameras have been planned for Dos de Mayo and 15 for Plaza Elíptica, all of them equipped with artificial intelligence. They have already been awarded and are expected to be operational in the last quarter of this year.
The vice mayor and delegate of the Security and Emergencies Area, Inma Sanz, explained this Monday during a visit to Ifema, that this installation arises from “neighborhood demands” but always with “technical reports from the Municipal Police or even the National Police “that assess where the cameras should be placed.
He also added that these cameras help both in “deterrence” and in clarifying any event. In addition, artificial intelligence provides “a lot of efficiency” and prevents the need to hire more staff to handle the high volume of cameras 24 hours a day.
