This year, five more parks in Kazan will be equipped with a video surveillance

(KZN.RU, August 12, Alina Berezhnaya). 189 surveillance cameras will be installed in five public spaces of Kazan as part of the project “Safe City”. Rifat Khannanov, the head of the Department of Information Technology and Communications, reported today at the Business Monday. 45 cameras will appear in the park near Komsomolskoe Lake in Derbyshki, 30 cameras in the park near the HoC “Said-Galiev”, 12 video surveillance systems in the park “Dubrava”, 21 ones in Hermitage Garden, and 81 ones on Lebyazhie Lake.

In total, 419 surveillance cameras have been installed in 33 parks and squares of Kazan for today. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the RT, almost every crime committed in public places and on the streets is investigated using video surveillance systems. “In 2018, the use of video surveillance systems contributed to the solving of 1200 crimes and the identification of more than 600 administrative offenses”, explained R. Khannanov.

In total, 12554 cameras are registered in the unified register of cameras for the operational work of law enforcement agencies. They meet the requirements of the program “Safe City” and provide a video archive. Most of the cameras were installed in multi-apartment residential buildings (8582). The quarterly principle of video surveillance organization was tested for the first time. The entrances and exits to the quarter, play and sports grounds, parking lots and garbage sites are controlled be them, said R. Khannanov.

The access to quarterly chambers was given to citizens. “With the administration of the Sovetsky district, an integration module with video surveillance providers was implemented as part of a pilot project on the portal “Open Kazan”. Residents with personal accounts on the portal are given access to all video cameras installed within the framework of the project located in a radius of 300 meters from the user's address”, explained R. Khannanov.

Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, noted the importance of surveillance cameras in the work of the police. “The advantages of video surveillance are obvious. It is a systematic work under the program “Safe City” and, of course, a great help for law enforcement agencies in solving crimes”, noted I. Metshin.

Rifat Khannanov also added that the modernization of the security system at social facilities continues. Thus, 7171 surveillance cameras have been installed at 714 municipal facilities, 2202 of which are cameras with high image detail.