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04-06-2011, 04:50 PM
A conflict between the Police and a dismissed lieutenant colonel has prevented the second shipment, this time of 70 surveillance cameras, from being installed in city barrios to fight crime, reports Diario Libre. Former lieutenant colonel Sergio Tulio Victoria said that the cameras had an intelligent chip that can detect facial features of criminals, license plates and other details to identify criminals. He visited Diario Libre yesterday and said that the 70 cameras were due to arrive in May. "But because of my dismissal, the cameras will not be coming," he told the newspaper. Victoria was fired after an interview on Nuria Piera's investigative TV show where he presented the lack of support for the program on the part of the Police in contrast to the program announcements made by the Police itself. He went public to say that only 30 cameras had been installed, not the 400 that were announced by the Police. He also mentioned the cameras had been donated by Spain and he had transported the first to the country and was owed the transportation money.
"I am sorry that the project has not been able to be implemented, even when it was mentioned by the President as an achievement of his government in his 27 February speech," said Victoria.
The chief of the Police had announced a program to install 400 surveillance cameras, as reported in the press on 1 March 2011.
Police Public Relations spokesman Maximo Baez said 115 cameras were the first to be installed at a cost of RD$50 million, as he told Nuria Piera in an interview. Baez said the cameras were purchased with Police funds and a donation from Spain, but the Police chief never mentioned the donation from Spain in his announcement. Piera highlighted the contradictions in the program and the technology compared to the initial announcement, and the funding of the project.
Victoria said that he proposed the project to the new Police chief when the latter was first appointed to the post. He said that Spanish company Enytec 21 had donated 35 cameras as well as other equipment needed for the initial installation. According to Victoria, the Police chief had pledged to reimburse him for his expenditures from the 2011 Police budget.
Nuria pointed out that the new supervisor of the program did not even know the brand of the cameras, and describes his qualification for the post as being "a policeman."
Nuria Piera focused on why the Police had lied about such an important project and why Victoria was dismissed. Victoria said the original handling of the project would have been different. She also demonstrated that the Police had lied about the installation of more than 100 cameras.
Piera asked the Police financial director why the Police had said the investment was RD$50 million in the first phase, and he replied that he was not aware of that. The financial director, Colonel Garcia Alvarez, told Piera that about RD$3 million had been invested.
She described the cameras as "decorations" and said they were just a bluff of citizen security effort by the Police.
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"I am sorry that the project has not been able to be implemented, even when it was mentioned by the President as an achievement of his government in his 27 February speech," said Victoria.
The chief of the Police had announced a program to install 400 surveillance cameras, as reported in the press on 1 March 2011.
Police Public Relations spokesman Maximo Baez said 115 cameras were the first to be installed at a cost of RD$50 million, as he told Nuria Piera in an interview. Baez said the cameras were purchased with Police funds and a donation from Spain, but the Police chief never mentioned the donation from Spain in his announcement. Piera highlighted the contradictions in the program and the technology compared to the initial announcement, and the funding of the project.
Victoria said that he proposed the project to the new Police chief when the latter was first appointed to the post. He said that Spanish company Enytec 21 had donated 35 cameras as well as other equipment needed for the initial installation. According to Victoria, the Police chief had pledged to reimburse him for his expenditures from the 2011 Police budget.
Nuria pointed out that the new supervisor of the program did not even know the brand of the cameras, and describes his qualification for the post as being "a policeman."
Nuria Piera focused on why the Police had lied about such an important project and why Victoria was dismissed. Victoria said the original handling of the project would have been different. She also demonstrated that the Police had lied about the installation of more than 100 cameras.
Piera asked the Police financial director why the Police had said the investment was RD$50 million in the first phase, and he replied that he was not aware of that. The financial director, Colonel Garcia Alvarez, told Piera that about RD$3 million had been invested.
She described the cameras as "decorations" and said they were just a bluff of citizen security effort by the Police.
www.nuria.com.do/casos.php (http://www.nuria.com.do/casos.php)
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#12)