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Venezuelan Government to Use Drones to Reduce Violence
The Venezuelan government’s public safety plan will include radars sensitive to gunfire and drones equipped with video cameras, Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez announced Monday.
The devices will be put into operation starting in April 2015, when Venezuela “will have 50,000 cameras installed to monitor spaces with high concentration of people with the aim of strengthening … public safety,” the minister told private broadcaster Canal I.
Rodriguez said that the cameras on the unmanned aircraft “will be integrated into the 911 emergency (telephone) system,” just like a number of “radars for the detection of gunfire.”
“When a shot is fired in a sector with radars, we’ll immediately have that information,” which will enable the police to act quickly on the matter, he said.
He also said that “special equipment to … block cell phone calls in prisons, where it has been determined that criminal leaders are extorting citizens” via bands of thugs on the outside, will be purchased abroad.
“We’re going to test that equipment and if it’s effective it will be acquired for all the country’s prisons. If we manage to cut the communications (of inmates) with the outside … we’ll be reducing crime by a very important percentage,” he predicted.
Rodriguez noted that recently the government made available to the public a cell phone application that provides a permanent connection to the closest police force, something that has helped to reduce crime.
“According to the figures of the (government-run) Venezuelan Safety Observatory, in the 41st week of the year murders were reduced by 31 percent compared to the same week in 2013” and kidnappings “were reduced almost to zero,” he said.
Published in Latino Daily News
Source: http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/venezuelan-government-to-use-drones-to-reduce-violence/31349#When:18:37:09Z
