The Ministry of the Presidency and the Ministry of Public Works signed an agreement to strengthen the security and supervision of critical infrastructure and strategic public spaces, through the Military and Police Commission (Comipol), with the integration of more than one thousand cameras that will increase the security of the road infrastructure, through the 9-1-1 Video Surveillance Network.
The agreement was signed at the National Palace by the Minister of the Presidency and president of the 9-1-1 National Council, Joel Santos Echavarría; the head of the MOPC, Deligne Alberto Ascención Burgos, and the executive director of the 9-1-1 System, Colonel Randolfo Rijo Gómez, who were accompanied by the director of Comipol, Major General Rafael Vásquez Espínola.
Minister Santos Echavarría emphasized that, through this articulated work, the Government continues to make important efforts to improve the services offered to the citizens, with the objective of improving security in all senses.
“This agreement focuses on different aspects of security; we are talking about road safety, which is one of the issues on which the Government must place greater emphasis and the implementation of these cameras in different spaces will help save more lives,” Santos Echavarría pointed out.
Likewise, the official indicated that these assets of high strategic value must be maintained in an adequate manner, in order to also collaborate with the Citizen Security Plan executed by the administration of President Luis Abinader, in order to provide a better service to the Dominican society.
Joel Santos highlighted the importance of this support, which will contribute to the integration of technological and operational capabilities with a clear and forceful objective: to improve the security of our road infrastructure through the use of the 9-1-1 Video Surveillance Network and the integration of more than a thousand cameras that would result from the implementation of joint projects of the two institutions.
On his side, the Minister of Public Works and Communications, Deligne Ascención Burgos, explained the importance of the signing of this agreement, because it will strengthen the assistance and security of the roads and infrastructure of the country.
“This agreement will involve global infrastructures, such as tunnels, bridges and overpasses, to be integrated to the monitoring system of the National System of Emergency Attention and Security 9-1-1, in order to guarantee the adequate security that this type of structures require”, he said.
In this sense, he pointed out that the Comipol personnel will provide timely assistance on behalf of the MOPC, to monitor any situation. At the same time, he thanked the Minister of the Presidency, Joel Santos Echavarría, and the director of the National System of Emergency Attention and Security 9-1-1, Colonel Randolfo Rijo Gómez, for the implementation of this agreement.
“The system will contribute to the use of technologies, with the objective of obtaining products focused on the analysis of infrastructure, traffic control and urban video surveillance,” said Ascención Burgos.
Rijo Gómez said: “Through this network all bridges, overpasses, highways and tunnels in the Dominican Republic will be monitored in real time. We thank the MOPC for allowing us to work hand in hand with them in the solution of some of the problems that concern us in a timely manner,” he said.
The signing ceremony was attended by the deputy director of the National System of Emergency Attention and Security 9-1-1, Colonel Harold Jimenez, among other authorities.
More than 10,000 video surveillance cameras
In April of this year, 9-1-1 installed 267 video surveillance cameras in the provinces of Montecristi, Dajabón, Valverde and Santiago Rodríguez, to continuously strengthen citizen security.
Meanwhile, in May, an agreement was signed between the Ministry of Interior and Police, lottery bank executives, business sector leaders and the National Police, whereby more than 10,000 video surveillance cameras, located in different points of the national territory, will be interconnected to the National Emergency System 9-1-1, which will allow to continue increasing the levels of citizen security in the population and to continue to confront organized crime.
Source:presidencia.gob.do
