When political leaders put down their party flags to focus on finding common solutions, they are fulfilling their responsibility.

‘If a car is stolen in Guayaquil and crosses the bridge to Samborondón or vice versa, we can detect it with cameras’: the cantons are putting together video surveillance systems

This December 7, the municipalities of Guayaquil and Samborondón signed an agreement to merge their video surveillance systems. This will make it possible to track those who commit crimes and cross between these two cantons trying to avoid the authorities.

The technology of both locations is linked in this commitment to fighting crime. The initiative is convincing, but it will be much more effective if it adds Durán and Daule, the other two neighboring cantons that make up Greater Guayaquil and are connected by land, sea and even air if you count Aerovía, which connects Guayaquil. with Durán.

Segura EP from Guayaquil will connect its video surveillance system to Samborondón; The agreement was signed this Tuesday

The Samborondón Monitoring and Surveillance Center is equipped with more than 650 cameras that offer, among other benefits, a license plate recognition system, a ‘fish eye’ (panoramic view), sirens, emergency totems, community alarms, a security system. interconnection of watchtowers, thermal chambers with radars in the Daule and Babahoyo rivers. In turn, Segura EP (Guayaquil video surveillance system) has 35,000 cameras; almost 16,000 of them with facial and license plate recognition technology.

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If the technology of Durán and Daule can be added to this, for citizens who live or work between the four cantons, collaborative control will be generated where the population wins. In the December 7 subscription, it was announced that there were driveways. The obligation is to accelerate them in the search for peace of citizens.

‘What was already in the decrees and regulations passed into the law; There are no significant changes in the Law on Private Protection and Surveillance,’ experts say

The four cantons that make up Greater Guayaquil have a combined population of 3,371,299 and their economies are linked by proximity, residence and work. Regardless of the fact that the leaders of these responsibilities do not coincide in political parties, the fact that they privilege collaborative and joint projects is positive and binding for the common good. (OR)