It is codenamed CCOS.
Translation: operational security coordination center.
Launched in 2017, this command center project, bringing together the various services responsible for the security of Ile-de-France transport networks in a single location, is entering its final phase.
The construction of the future ultramodern equipment (clad in walls of screens, fiber optics and interconnected transmission systems) is in full swing in a 1,000 square meter room, on the 2nd floor of the police headquarters, on the island of la Cité, in the heart of Paris.
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It will come into service in December 2021, bringing together under one roof the security PCs of RATP (currently located in Bercy), SNCF (installed Gare du Nord), representatives of teams from the Optile network (suburban buses ), and representatives of the gendarmerie and the regional transport police service.
All placed under the authority of the prefect of police.
"It is an extraordinary tool that will revolutionize transport safety," enthuses Valérie Pécresse, president of the region and of the transport regulatory authority, Ile-de-France Mobilités (IDFM), who visited this Thursday the site of the future CCOS.
At a total cost of 19.5 million euros, the equipment co-financed by IDFM, the police headquarters (up to 8.5 million each) and the SNCF was initially thought of as a response to the terrorist risk.
But its commissioning should have concrete consequences on daily security in the various networks, the monitoring of which will be "decompartmentalized".
A wall of screens to follow the patrols in real time
No more wasted time or information when a delinquent moves from one network to another ... The unified coordination of some 4,000 agents responsible for transport security (3,000 on the operators side and 1,000 in the service of transport police) should allow a significant reduction in response times. Especially since a CCOS screen wall will allow real-time visualization of the geolocation of all patrols in the field, regardless of their status. The operators of the coordination center (which will have 80 workstations) will rely on video surveillance of the transport network. Today it has… more than 80,000 cameras.