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Hervé Pavageau
Published on
Oct 18, 2024 at 6:04 p.m.
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The system is operational, day and night, after months of deployment. Time for necessary adjustments.
Since last July, video surveillance cameras were installed at different points in the commune of Loroux-Bottereau (in the Nantes vineyard). The system is positioned at city entrances and exits, at entrances to activity zones and at a few “general observation” points. Of the twenty cameras that must be installed, 90% are in place.
Four people from Loroux-Bottereau were trained
“We are on video protection. And not video surveillance, as the opposition likes to repeat,” insists the mayor, Emmanuel Rivery.
The difference? This is because here, “no one is behind the camera”.
The video protection device is not used what upon exemption from the public prosecutor to solve investigations. To view the images, four people from the municipality were trained: the mayor, the municipal police officer, a deputy and the general director of services.
“Everything is traced and framed”
“Everything is mapped out and framed. The premises itself are under video,” reports Vincent Peru, video protection expert who supports the municipality. And for whom this type of installation, awaited by the gendarmeriegives results. “Many investigations have been solved by video. This highlights their usefulness,” says the expert.
All manipulations of the system are recorded and may be subject to control by the CNIL (National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties). Small blue signs placed under the cameras also recall the legal framework of the system. “The images are kept for a maximum of 15 days and can be viewed in the event of an incident by authorized persons and the police,” we can read on the sign.
For the community, the system must make it possible to “quickly resolve and settle investigations in the broad sense”, recalls the mayor, for whom video protection can help potential victims. The other advantage of the system is that it has a pushback effect for local and itinerant delinquency.
Soon 18 video surveillance cameras in Divatte-sur-Loire
Like its neighbor Loroux-Bottereau, the municipality of Divatte-sur-Loire (near Nantes) is investing in video protection cameras.
Eighteen will be installed: five on the church square of La Chapelle-Basse-Mer, three on the church square of Barbechat, three on the D7-D31 roundabout, three at the Stade de la Chapelle , two at the Salle de la Chapelaine, one at the cinema and one at the Barbechat public school. Deployment hoped for by the end of the year.
The system, which will cost the municipality €176,000 with an annual package of €9,254 (negotiated with Bouygues Energie et Services), was not done without debate between elected officials in recent months. “We asked ourselves the question of the usefulness of putting cameras everywhere but there was so much damage which led us to secure many places and to at least channel petty crime,” recalls Mayor Christelle Braud. the municipalities are getting into it, so the incivilities are moving to others who don’t have them. Here, as in Loroux, we experienced this phenomenon when the town of Saint-Julien-de-Concelles deployed its cameras ago. a few years “.
This suggests a saving of €50,000 per year in damage repairs since the installation of the public security system.
An option to purchase ten more cameras
The first councilor took as an example the neighboring town of Saint-Julien-de-Concelles, the first in the area to install cameras. Since their implementation, the community has seen its damage bill lower of €50,000.
A drop that the municipality of Loroux-Bottereau hopes to record. Every year, the city spends between €30,000 and €40,000 to repair vandalized street furniture and public buildings.
For these twenty cameras, the municipality has invested nearly 250,000 €. A second optional purchase tranche is marked. The budget of €60,000 would make it possible to purchase around ten additional cameras intended for public facilities.
Already four requisitions at Loroux-Bottereau
To these amounts is added an annual maintenance contract of €10,000. “We are waiting to see the impact before starting the second phase,” explains Emmanuel Rivery.
Since the cameras were installed, images have already been viewed. There are four judicial requisitions.
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