The National Emergency Assistance System 911 announced yesterday that one of the goals for the year 2025 is to double the number of cameras at the national level for the work of video surveillancegoing from 5,700 that currently exist to 11,755.
The announcement was made during the presentation to members of the press of the institution’s progress in managing emergencies and security citizen, through technologies based on Intelligence Artificial (AI), Machine Learning and Neural Networks.
“We are going to strengthen the capacity of video surveillance in the territory, going from 5,700 currently to 11,755 for a variation of 106.14%. This system constitutes one of the core processes of the 911“said the Minister of the Presidency, José Ignacio Paliza.
Paliza stated that the System 911 is in “a stage of maturation and consolidation”, with the implementation of the “new generation 911“, using technology cutting edge for more efficient coordination in response to different types of emergencies, security citizen and investigations of the Public Ministry.
Types of emergencies
Meanwhile, the director of the System 911colonel Randolfo Rijo Gómez, highlighted that the traffic accidents are the most reported (12.5%
As for the callsan average of 1,608 is received each day; 67 calls per hour, accumulating more than five million calls every year, attending 1.1 emergencies per minute.
90% of these calls are through devices mobiles and 10% from landlines. In that same order, Rijo highlighted that 60% of them are unproductive.
42% of the emergencies are produced in Holy Sunday. In addition to Spanish, the calls They can be attended in English or Creole.
Currently, the System 911 It operates in 25 provinces, covering 92.3% of the national territory, except for the border provinces and some areas in the South, which, due to remoteness, are still working on the development of logistics to incorporate them into the management model.
“We are the second country in Latin America to have the Apple and of Google simultaneously for the exact geolocation of the user, using the mobile phone sensors, as well as the use of artificial intelligence in the selection of the most appropriate unit, taking into account dynamic variables of traffic, distance and availability of the response units in real time,” explained the director.
This new technology allows you to create maps of heat in real time to gather information on security citizen (useful for the Police National); traffic accidents (useful for the Institute National of Transit and Land Transportation) and health events, which can be used to create public policies by the Ministry of Health.
The colonel recalled that the System 911 It has two headquarters, one in Holy Sunday and another in Santiago, where all the technology It is developed “in situ”, which allows better management of the budget of the entity that coordinates immediate response between the Police Nationalthe Fire Department, the ambulances of the Directorate of Care Services Emergencies Extra-hospital Services (DAEH), the Military and Police Commission (Comipol) of the Ministry of Public Works and Communications and the General Directorate of Traffic and Land Transportation Security (Digesett).
Other plans for 2025
As part of the actions of the Government With a view to 2025, the integration of more than 330 ambulances and 16 fire trucks System 911the delivery of more than 10 thousand communication radios; 1,300 devices GPS, 500 camera systems video surveillance for vehicles and 200 tablets to different institutions and State agencies for their emergency response operations.
