Faro, Portugal, Aug. 27, 2024 (Lusa) - Faro city council, in Portugal's Algarve region, will on Tuesday inaugurate a video surveillance system to prevent crime and crack down on road traffic offences on the main roads and at various points in the city centre, the municipality has announced.

The ceremony to inaugurate the video surveillance system will take place at 11am, at the premises of the Faro District Public Security Police Command, which will be in charge of operating the 32 cameras that the council has installed in the areas with the greatest influx of people and traffic in the city.

The ceremony will be attended by the mayor of Faro, Rogério Bacalhau, and the secretary of state for Internal Administration, Telmo Correia, the  council said in a statement.

On 5 April 2023, Faro council announced that it had awarded the contract for the installation of 32 cameras, of four different types, as part of an investment of more than €550,000.

The contract included the extension of the fibre optic network and the preparation of support infrastructures for the installation of the system in ‘key locations’, namely in the commercial area, on the main roads and in the city centre, the council said at the time.

With the inauguration of this video surveillance system, the council and the Public Security Police will be able to monitor public and private property, "prevent crimes in places where there is a reasonable risk of them occurring" and, at the same time, prevent and crack down on road traffic offences, it stressed.

The system is capable of capturing and recording audio ‘whenever there is a situation of concrete danger to the safety of people and property’ and the cameras will be operated by the Public Security Police (PSP), working uninterruptedly 24 hours a day, seven days a week, the council explained.

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