Vicente López, one of the 135 districts that make up the Buenos Aires province, started a project at the end of 2011 to modernise and expand the city’s video surveillance system. In addition to capturing criminal activity, the project’s main goal has always been to reduce crime through preventive measures.
Stretching over 33 square kilometres, Vicente López is home to about 300,000 people. In recent years, the flow of population that moves through the district has risen considerably. Thousands move daily through the region on their way to and from the federal capital, via personal or public transport (there are three railways and a Metrobus, as well as a busy highway through the suburbs’ northern zone). These demands, together with other phenomena, made a high demand for the city’s video surveillance system to be improved.Vicente López has different alarm systems, panic buttons, lights and a digital dispatch console, which are connected to police cell phones
