This commune in Vendée wants to spend €1.2 million to install 75 cameras

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The strengthening of the video protection in Aizenay is entering its active phase. In September, elected officials validated a budget of €1.2 million to extend and renovate its surveillance network, which is around twenty years old.

A campaign promise, to respond to a demand “from young people, local residents and traders, waiting for more security”, assures Franck Roy, the mayor d'Aizenay.

This new deployment aims to secure public property and strengthen surveillance of main traffic routes. The work will be spread over four years.

A new viewing center

Ultimately, 75 cameras will monitor the city. “This will only be done if we obtain funding for the entire project,” says the town hall.

“It is not the number of cameras that is important, it is the meaning we give to video protection. A single building can have four cameras, because it has four different entrances, but there is only one video-protected building,” explains the mayor.

For 2024 and 2025, a first phase will focus on fiber connections for the town hall, the municipal police and the municipal technical center, replacing the radio points “currently saturated”.

The project will continue with the creation of a new viewing center to the municipal police. “Nothing to do with an urban surveillance center with police officers behind the screens,” specifies the mayor. This is just a computer that stores recordings, which can be viewed upon request.

Public buildings

Subsequently, the work will focus on public buildings where anti-intrusion systems will be installed. Six buildings will be equipped: the town hall, the municipal police, the municipal technical center, the church, the Villeneuve space and the Omega sports complex.

“Too often, municipal buildings are the target of intrusions for thefts of material andacts of vandalism. Video protection of these sites should make it possible to limit the repair costs linked to these incivilities. »

The heart of the city

Secondly, the cameras will be deployed “in sensitive public spaces”: Place de l'Eglise, center roundabout, rue de Verdun and rue Leclerc, place des Halles, route des Sables-d'Olonne, route de Saint -Gilles-Croix-de-Vie, Place du Champ de Foire.

“We want to video protect the heart of the city. » A wish expressed by the traders, still upset by the car-ramming attack on the Maison de la presse in March 2024. “However, we will not be able to protect every business, our action will be complementary to the means put in place by everyone,” warns the mayor.

On major roads

Subsequently, the video protection will be focused on the major arteries : road to Nantes, road to Challans, road to La Roche-sur-Yon, road to Poiré-sur-Vie. A deployment developed in consultation with the gendarmerie security referent, the prefect, the Aizenay and Poiré-sur-Vie police forces.

“We will thus participate in the general network of the territory,” specifies the mayor. “Thanks to this device, we will be able to trace the route of suspicious vehicles. »

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