• In Toulouse, video over-tagging will extend from the end of November to the whole city.

  • From their screens, municipal police officers will track down “runs” and dangerous behavior in particular.

  • In 2022, the technological leap will concern parking thanks to an automatic - and rapid - plate reading system linked to parking meter data.

Since 2016 in Toulouse, 11,0000 reports per year have been drawn up remotely by municipal police officers or sworn agents from the video wall of their security PC using video surveillance cameras. These “plums” mainly concern anarchic parking lots, in disabled places, pedestrian crossings or cycle paths. Above all, they are confined within the boulevards.

But from the end of November, this video over-tagging will move up a gear.

It will be carried out via all of the 454 cameras in the municipal territory and will concern all traffic offenses.

"It is a tool that can allow us, for example, to initiate procedures in terms of urban rodeos", emphasizes Emilion Esnault, the deputy in charge of Safety.

"The wedding processions too", insists the mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc (LR) thinking of the noisy parades which, in the euphoria, free themselves from the pedestrian areas.

The idea is to set up one-off “video-tagging missions”, particularly in sectors where dangerous behavior is reported by residents.

Quick and comprehensive parking control

And this is only a foretaste since, after the drivers, it is the refractory to the payment of parking, that is to say according to statistics about 70% of Toulousans who will have to keep to square one. The town hall will in fact, as Paris or Marseille are already doing, equip its public highway surveillance agents (ASVP) with "four to five" vehicles equipped with the Lapi system (automated reading of license plates). By simply passing through the street, these cars will be able to cross the plates with those recorded in the parking meter or with the files of the resident parking lot. The agent inside will only have to manually validate the free riders.

The ambition is to be able to check “at least once a day” the 16,300 paid parking spaces spread over 119 km of roads.

"The challenge is to ensure that parking times are respected and to have a better turnover rate", explains Emilion Esnault, who also wants to free up time for the ASVP to control the blue zones, where parking is free but limited in time. .

A system that still raises questions

The operational arrival of the Lapi system is announced for the "first half of 2022" and will give rise to an experimentation phase by then to resolve the many practical problems it could pose.

For example, if by bad luck the Lapi car passes between the moment you park and the moment you validate the payment at the parking meter at the end of the street.

There is also the case of people with reduced mobility, exempt from payment.

Will they have to complicate their lives by still recording their license plate in the parking meter?

Or report all the cars of their companions to the town hall?

Answer in a few months.

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