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Paris: the exorbitant price of video surveillance

2022-02-16T17:13:52.491Z


DECRYPTION – The Court of Auditors points to the failures of a police tool about to cost half a billion euros.


More than 4,000 public road cameras, 1,500 shooting sites, 38,000 interconnected private cameras, 600 km of optical fibre, 90 servers, 50 video walls and around a hundred sites where 4,700 agents authorized to process images take turns… The video protection plan of the Paris police headquarters (PVPP) has been scrutinized by the Court of Auditors.

A tight audit of one of the Home Office's biggest contracts.

He reveals that since the initial plan of “1000 cameras” in 2010, under Sarkozy, this investment will soon be close to half a billion euros.

The sages of rue Cambon warn against the formula of public-private partnership subscribed from the outset.

The State had committed for a period of sixteen years with the company Iris PVPP, created for the occasion and bringing together two subsidiaries of Engie and EDF (Ineo and Citelum).

However, the contract concluded for 225 million euros at the start, already reached, as of December 31, 2020, 343 million euros.

“The cost estimate…

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Source: lefigaro

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