The council has awarded the contract to the company Innovasur for an amount of 280,708.83 euros plus VAT, which includes installation, maintenance, and service for four years. The system will enable the Local Police to monitor the city's main thoroughfares in real-time, 24 hours a day, from their operations room, thereby improving incident response capabilities and enhancing both road and citizen safety.
The awarded company will also include, at no additional cost, four spare cameras and technological enhancements to the system's node connections as part of the improvements. Following the finalization of documentation and the site survey report, the installation, which has an execution period of 75 days, will commence.
The Councilor for Citizen Security, Ángel Novillo, highlighted that the project aims to achieve three fundamental objectives: “better traffic management, improved road safety, and providing the Local Police with more resources and response capacity.” Direct visualization from headquarters will facilitate the rapid identification of incidents and the coordination of officers on duty.
Novillo detailed that 14 of the cameras will be equipped with license plate recognition technology, particularly at the city's access points. These devices will serve as a support tool for the Local Police, not as automatic sanctioning systems, as the councilor specified, noting they will be used for monitoring routes, conducting pursuits when necessary, and facilitating police operations.
For his part, the mayor of Lucena, Aurelio Fernández, positively assessed the award of this contract, calling it "a contract we were eager to see move forward." He stated that the initiative will allow for advancements in modernizing the Local Police's resources and "take another step within everything being done to improve the Local Police's services and continue reinforcing the safety of our municipality."
Fernández also expressed his gratitude to the municipal departments involved in preparing the tender, including IT, Local Police, Procurement, and Operational Services, following the previous procedure's cancellation due to an appeal to the Contractual Resources Tribunal.
This initial phase of the project includes 67 cameras, but the Local Police have identified up to 93 potential points, opening the possibility for future expansions with approximately 25 additional devices. Some planned locations will also be used to monitor areas where irregular dumping of belongings occurs, acting as a deterrent and a support tool for municipal work.
