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A multiplication by 3.5.
The increase is significant and reflects an
“ambitious plan for the safety of the inhabitants of
Nantes
”,
according to Johanna Rolland, the mayor of the City.
This Thursday, she announced that the urban supervision center (CSU), launched in 2018, would be equipped with 88 additional cameras this year.
A figure well above the 25 cameras installed on average in previous years.
This
"acceleration of the means made available to agents"
of the CSU will make it possible to reach the number of 250 cameras by the end of 2023. A symbolic threshold for the city councilor.
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She had promised, last fall after a series of dramatic and sordid miscellaneous events, to reach this figure at the end of her mandate in 2026. The objective is therefore met three years earlier.
“It's an assumed choice
, indicates the mayor to
Figaro
.
The inhabitants expect results, means are put on the table.
We made the choice not to wait.”
Such a deployment of cameras has a cost.
The investment, 50% covered by Nantes Métropole, the other half going to the State, is estimated at 2.8 million euros.
A map of cameras by neighborhood
“Crime is changing.
There is no naivety about this.
Our responses must adapt”
, proclaims the mayor.
“There will be human presence behind the screens to liaise with the intervention teams on the ground
,” adds Pascal Bolo, the security assistant.
In this sense, four agents will reinforce the team of 18 people already in place.
It remains to be seen where these cameras will be deployed.
Of course, their precise location remains confidential.
The City has nevertheless produced a map to show the extent of the device.
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"The installation of new cameras is decided after a diagnosis carried out by our services in consultation with the national and municipal police"
, explains Johanna Rolland who mentions places where there are
"necessities"
which have been
"identified"
.
In the lot, some neighborhoods seem to have "more needs" than others.
For example, the Malakoff district, which already has seven cameras, will see nine new cameras installed in 2023. In Doulon-Bottière, the three current cameras will be reinforced by 14 new equipment by the end of the year.
Priority neighborhoods: 40% of cameras
Of the entire system covering the city of Nantes, approximately 40% of the cameras are installed in the city center and the island of Nantes.
There are also 40% distributed in priority neighborhoods of the city.
“There will also be some in the Foundries sector because it is a place where there are significant difficulties of tranquility”
, underlines Didier Fillion-Nicolet, deputy director general for tranquility and public security at the City of Nantes.
Video surveillance will also be added in the vicinity of the Cyclo Station, at Nantes station, where users had reported numerous thefts last November.
2400 video extractions
The deployment of the cameras does not take place all at once.
It is done in a drip.
Thus, next week, two of them will be installed in the Feydeau-Commerce sector.
"17 cameras, including 13 in the Beaujoire sector, will also be installed in connection with the major sporting events of this summer",
specifies Didier Fillion-Nicolet for whom these devices
"embarrass"
and
"irritate"
the activity of offenders.
For Pascal Bolo, the cameras are
“multipliers of the human presence”
which also make it possible to
“come to the aid of people in great vulnerability”
and to
“advance legal proceedings”
.
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On this point, the community has provided some figures.
Since the creation of the CSU in 2018, there have been 2,400 video extractions on judicial requisitions which have been handed over to the police and 826 law enforcement operations have relied on the CSU.
"In 2022, the cameras were used in the follow-up of 372 arrests"
, details Didier Fillion-Nicolet.
If the objective of 250 cameras will be reached by the end of the year, will new cameras be installed later in the streets of Nantes?
"Yes, it's possible
," says Johanna Rolland without giving further details.