There are more than 4,800 town hall rooms in all of Bucharest, and this number will double by the end of the year, according to information provided by the local administration of Bucharest to HotNews.ro. There are more than 2,000 surveillance cameras in the first sector, and none in the fourth sector, but the City Hall wants to install them. However, by the end of the year, the number of surveillance cameras in sector 6 will exceed 3,300, the city hall says.

In Sector 1, there are more than 2,000 surveillance cameras installed by the city hall, 1,400 in parks and playgrounds, 658 on the streets, representatives of the institution report.

There are 750 surveillance cameras in Sector 2, Mayor Radu Mihaiu told us.

There are about 1,200 surveillance cameras in Sector 3.

“The surveillance equipment can be controlled 360 degrees using a joystick, with options to zoom in to see details, to monitor and identify people engaging in anti-social behaviour. The system is necessary to prevent and counteract anti-social behavior: persons who do not observe the cleanliness of green spaces, on park alleys, persons who spoil the street environment, flowerbeds and other facilities,” the City Hall of Sector 3 recently announced.

Mayor Robert Negoitz says fines are issued based on images captured by surveillance cameras.

“We have a higher security system, so we can more easily control aspects related to the administration of public property, and people who do not observe cleanliness are caught and subsequently sanctioned. In this way, we are trying to convince citizens who have antisocial behavior to respect the environment and others, as well as offer residents of the sector additional security,” said the mayor of sector 3, Robert Negoitse.

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The City Hall of Sector 4 wants 700 rooms

Sector 4 has no cameras at all, but the mayor plans to install 700.

“The surveillance cameras that currently exist in Sector 4 belong to the General Directorate of the Local Police of the Municipality of Bucharest,” representatives of the Sector 4 City Hall told us.

In the near future, “Sector 4” plans to develop its own surveillance system consisting of more than 700 video cameras. These will be installed in the public domain as well as in government pre-university units in Sector 4.

• “Although Sector 4 has been in the top of the safest sectors in Bucharest for several years, we want even more that this feeling of security is felt in the soul of every resident when he leaves his home.
• By installing these video cameras, we will be able to more easily identify those guilty of violating public order, those who throw garbage in public places, those who consume alcoholic beverages on the street or in pavilions installed nearby. blocks or on those who use goods for vandalism in the public or private space of sector 4,” wrote Daniel Beluce recently on Facebook.

For the new surveillance system, the estimated investment cost is about 25 million lei, according to the technical and economic indicators approved by the city council in 2021.

According to the recently approved feasibility study, around 400 surveillance cameras have been installed in Sector 5, and the City Hall plans to install another 400 cameras.

The estimated cost of the investment is about 35 million lei, according to the technical and economic indicators approved by the city council in February 2022.

The City Hall of Sector 6 will install another 3,000 cameras this year

360 surveillance cameras have been installed in Sector 6, and this year the City Hall will install another 3,000.

“At the moment, 350 stationary and ten mobile cameras are operating in sector 6, which are placed in places where sector 6 of the local police states frequent violations, to combat this phenomenon (illegal dumping of waste, acts of vandalism, etc.). )”, says the response of the City Hall of Sector 6 to HotNews.ro’s request.

Installation of 3,000 new cameras has already begun.

“They began to be installed around the perimeter of the educational blocks, so at the beginning of the 2023-2024 school year there will be 1,800 ultra-high surveillance cameras. Also, by the end of the year, another 1,300 will be put on the street. All 3,000 cameras, plus what will be integrated from the old ones, will be controlled from the command center that is being built,” the City Hall of Sector 6 also informed us.

The City Hall of Sector 6 will pay 42 million lei plus VAT for a new video surveillance system consisting of 3,000 cameras. The money goes to the association consisting of 3 companies – Dataware Consulting SRL, Center for Radiocommunication Services and Aegeria Business Consulting SRL – and the contract was signed on May 18, 2022, the implementation period is 60 months.

The capital city hall has 55 rooms

The capital city hall also has 55 surveillance cameras, most of them in the Old Center.

Compared to London or cities in China, the number of surveillance cameras per population is extremely low.

For example, in coastal cities of China, there are 439 surveillance cameras per thousand inhabitants. In London, there are 13 surveillance cameras per thousand inhabitants, according to a top made by comparitech.com.

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