3. Smart Indicators 3.5 Smart Environment Security and trust
Barcelona
The City Council of Barcelona has made intensive use of new technologies to improve safety. These include the following: PDAs for municipal police officers. The most important features relating to security are: o Access to the NIP (Police Information Core), which provides on‐line access to the background of people and vehicles. o Access to the DGT (Traffic Department) that provides on‐line access to driving licenses (type, withdrawal ...) and vehicle data (insurance, MOT ...). or Municipal reports and SCT of infringements detected and on‐line transmission to the databases.
Mycelium: renewal of the computer system used to handle incidents and emergencies in Barcelona by the City Police and Fire Department. Kepler Project: Installation of PCs in police vehicles. It provides the vehicles with the same information available from the NIP. Surveillance cameras: video surveillance cameras for prevention purposes in relation to public safety in different parts of the city. Red Photo: installation of fixed devices to capture violations of drivers failing to respect red lights at the points with the highest accident rates in the city.
Bilbao
Bilbao has surveillance cameras in 15 areas of the city. Some have double lens, covering two angles with a single recording device. The quality of the recorded images, with a resolution of 3 megapixels, allows the identification of people or objects at a distance of between 25 and 50 metres, since the sequences can be expanded up to 400% digitally without losing sharpness. The images are transmitted using encryption techniques and through optical fibre connections. Therefore, they cannot be lost or be manipulated, since a fingerprint system used during storage of recordings prevents any changes to them. The recordings are archived for seven days at the Data Processing Centre of the Municipal Police and can be transferred to the courts of justice, the prosecution, the Ararteko and to other police forces, but only for the sole purpose of identification in the event of criminal acts. Only the Bilbao city police can use this surveillance system, but the City Council has already taken steps to transfer the information obtained to the Joint Police Coordination Centre that coordinates the municipal police and the regional police (Ertzaintza). http://bilbaopol.blogspot.com.es/2011/01/videovigilancia‐ policial.html
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