The common ones set foot on thesafety accelerator and in recent years they have installed most of them video surveillance cameras that nowadays exist in the respective parishes. The global figure is already approaching 2,000distributed among all public facilities, squares, streets, avenues and all those other spaces that corporations consider relevant to detect behavior outside the law. Encamp i Escaldes-Engordany they are, by far, the most controlled parishes. Each of them has approximately half a thousand devices in operation and they represent the 55% of all communal devices.
Sources from the two administrations explain to diary that the bulk of cameras have been installed in recent years. In fact, in the case ofScalds has passed from only 100 in 2021 to the current 500with an annual increase of one hundred. Most of them are in the central building, the sports facilities and the commercial center of theCarlemany avenuewhere a larger volume of people is concentrated. As for Encampthe forecast is to increase soon 504 current until 520. In contrast, the country’s capital and most populous parish does not even have half of the latter two. Right now they are 192 devicesalthough the intention is to increase stocks up to 314 a at the end of this year or at the beginning of 2027. The municipality specifies that twelve of the devices will be placed imminently, while the 110 remaining are part of an acquisition tender published in BOPA. the interested companies they can submit an offer until next December 2.
Saint Julian, Canillo i Massana they also have one significant number of devices, between 150 and 200. The first of these communes has recently placed a dozen to combat uncivil attitudes such as dumping and poor waste management. A Massanathe 185 cameras are spread over fifteen spaces and equipment, in addition to several parks and squares.
On the other hand, Canillo he has it right now 150 but shortly plans to increase the endowment to 400with the aim of strengthening the surveillance of streets, squares, parking lots or selective collection areas. In this way, then, it would become the third most parish video surveillance despite being the penultimate in population. Finally, I order is the parish with the least vigilance with only 87 devices. The 2023 incorporated sixteen and the 2025fifteen more. Communal sources explain that most of the devices are located in the streets and roads of the parish as well as in the communal facilities.
Regarding the legal framework
The corporations emphasize that the increase in these devices aims to deter uncivil behavior as well as record possible violations, and for collaboration with thes security forces always within the current legal framework. Some add that the intention is also to regulate vehicle flows, the protection ofpublic order and the provision of aidbut point out that in no case do they affect people’s privacy.
