The first surveillance cameras are installed in Lille.

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M.Libert / 20 Minutes

  • The first surveillance cameras promised by Martine Aubry were installed this Tuesday in Lille.

  • The device will eventually have 40 fixed cameras and around ten mobile cameras.

  • The system will be completed with the implementation of an urban supervision center by the end of 2021.

Martine's eye.

During the last municipal campaign in Lille, all the candidates, except the ecologist Stéphane Baly, had promised the deployment of video protection.

Even Martine Aubry who had yet been able to resist temptation during her previous terms.

His promise was partly materialized on Tuesday, with the installation of two cameras in the Lille-Flandres sector.

The first is right in front of the station, the second in the middle of rue Faidherbe.

Installed by Eiffage, these two municipal cameras are perched on masts 6 m high.

Each one is equipped with four objectives allowing to cover a vast field of 330 °, leaving only a small blind spot formed by the support.

The cameras film in full HD, ie a definition of 1920x1080, "largely sufficient to carry out a short distance identification", explains

a technician from the town hall

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Above each camera is a battery and a hard drive capable of recording two weeks of continuous video, day or night.

"It's a badly frequented place"

“These two cameras are said to be 'mobile', that is to say that the images are not watched in real time by agents.

On the other hand, the videos can be extracted and used in legal proceedings or police investigations, ”explains Arnaud Deslandes, deputy mayor in charge of territorial cohesion.

By Friday, two other mobile cameras will be positioned at Place des Reignaux and one at the entrance to rue Faidherbe, thus ensuring optimal coverage of the sector.

The first surveillance cameras are installed in Lille.

- M.Libert / 20 Minutes

"It's a poorly frequented place," recognizes Jean-Claude Menault, former director of the northern police who became deputy mayor in charge of security.

"We see here a delinquency of appropriation of the sector with mainly pick-pocketing, snatching or breaking and entering", assures for his part the current departmental director of public security (DDSP), Jean-François Papineau.

"We are not in the coexistence but in the parasitism", deplores Fabien Florack, the manager of a pharmacy near the station.

Same story with other traders: "There is a big expectation of traders, worried about these problems of insecurity", summarizes Nicolas Clauzet, president of the Union of traders Lille-Flandres and Reignaux.

Video over-tagging "possible", but "not on the agenda"

For now, the Lille cameras will have a dissuasive role and possibly a role in providing evidence.

For the protection side, it will be necessary to wait for the implementation of the urban supervision center (CSU) which will be installed, by the end of 2021, in the enclosure of the future municipal police station.

In the meantime, around forty fixed cameras will have been positioned in particular in Moulins, Wazemmes, République and Lille-Sud.

At this time, agents assigned to the CSU will be able to look at the images from the cameras in real time and send personnel to the site in the event of a problem.

The Security Assistant even sees a little further.

“If video over-tagging is not yet on the agenda, it is technically possible.

It will be necessary to target, for example for vehicles parked on cycle paths, ”imagines Jean-Claude Menault.

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