The geographical distribution and uses of cameras “could be improved”, note, in particular, the financial jurisdiction.
Le Monde with AFP
A considerable cost and efficiency not evaluated. The Court of Auditors requests the Ministry of the Interior and the Paris Police Prefecture to better supervise the use of video surveillance cameras in the capital, in a reference rendered public Thursday, February 10
In this referred, addressed to the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, the Court of Auditors formulates six recommendations. Several concern the 2010 public-private partnership contract to finance the “Videoftection Plan of the Paris Police Prefecture (PVPP)”. Valid until 2026 and initially concluded for 225.1 million euros, the contract reached € 343 million at the end of 2020, in particular because of the explosion of the number of cameras installed in Paris after the 2015 attacks (from 1 000 to 4,000 cameras).
With the Olympics of 2024, its total cost could rise to 433, or even 481 million euros, continues the court calling to “proscribe”, in the future, the use of this type of contract and Its method of financing deemed “inadequate and expensive”.
The effectiveness of the device remains to be evaluated
The institution also recommends that the prefect to carry out “without delay an assessment of the effectiveness of the PVPP in the prevention of delinquency and the elucidation of the offenses”, while the geographical distribution and the uses of the cameras “could be Improved “.
The cameras are concentrated in the “central districts of Paris and the main axes of traffic (…) and not in the most criminal areas of the capital,” the Court points. “There is less than one camera per 1,000 inhabitants in the e and 20 e arrondissements, against more than eleven in the 1 er And more than nine in the 8 e district “.
It also calls for “urgent” internal control of PVPP, in particular, to better detect non-compliant uses of video surveillance and asks the Ministry of the Interior to renovate the legal framework “today unsuitable “in the field.
Asked about the subject by the France-Press agency (AFP), the Ministry of the Interior and the police prefecture did not wish to answer for the moment.