The PSP have revealed that use of the video surveillance system installed in the city of Faro has already led to the clarification of a total of 43 crimes in the three months the cameras have been active.
Consisting of 41 cameras, the project was inaugurated on August 27th of this year, with the aim of “protecting and guaranteeing the safety of people, animals and property, in public places or places with public access and preventing the practice of acts classified by law as crimes, in places where there is a reasonable risk of their occurrence”.
Data on the number of crimes solved using video surveillance were published on the Facebook page of the Faro District Command, which published a thank you message received from a person regarding the effective way in which the Police had responded to a crime, of which he had been a victim (theft from inside a vehicle).
As a result, Faro City Council reveals that, “given the positive impact of the implementation of this first phase of this system, which involved a municipal investment of over €450,000”, it was decided, together with the Faro PSP Command, “to move forward, from now on, with a project to complement and expand the currently existing video surveillance system, operated by the PSP uninterruptedly 24 hours a day”.