The signing of an agreement between authorities of the Executive Branch and those of Canelones, Maldonado and Rocha established the expansion of the Maldonado security camera system to neighboring departments. This initiative involves installing more devices and covering the interbalnearia routes, 8 and 9, with the aim of improving security and providing elements to the Justice, said the Undersecretary of the Interior, Guillermo Maciel.
The Secretary of the Presidency, Álvaro Delgado; the Minister and Undersecretary of the Interior, Luis Alberto Heber and Guillermo Maciel, and the Director General of the Secretariat, Luis Calabria. Also present were the president of Antel, Gabriel Gurméndez; the mayor of Rocha, Alejo Umpiérrez; the mayor of Maldonado, Enrique Antía, and police authorities, headed by the director of the National Police, Diego Fernández.
Undersecretary Maciel explained that a work commission was formed made up of the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, Antel, UTE and the municipalities involved to work on the extension of security systems to the departments of Canelones and Rocha, and complement the new inputs with the Maldonado Video Surveillance Center. Through this advance, the Gral. Líber Seregni route (interbalnearia), Route 8, Brigadier General Juan Antonio Lavalleja, and Route 9, Coronel Leonardo Olivera, will be connected.
These joint actions seek to provide elements to the Attorney General’s Office and Justice, through the application of technology, said the chief.
Likewise, Maciel specified that the initiative will be carried out in stages, adding that the expansion implies installing more devices and covering more places, which will be defined by the Canelones and Rocha Police Headquarters.
For his part, Mayor Umpiérrez added that security will be reinforced in Rocha on Route 9, important for tourism, and the checkpoint near the border with Brazil, to monitor possible movements of terrorist organizations.
In another order, Mayor Antía highlighted as “great results” those achieved by this means in the Fernandino department, in operation since 2017. According to him, this influenced the change in the way police officers operate and contributed to clarify cases. . “Investment in security is an added value in Maldonado,” declared the chief, who added that this system required 22 million dollars, and currently requires maintenance of about 400,000 dollars per year.
