The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) on June 11 held a ceremony for the completion of the closed-circuit integrated TV surveillance control center at the National Civil Police of El Salvador’s 911 Center in the country’s capital of San Salvador. Shown are the participants cutting the tape at the event. (KOICA)
By Kim Hyelin
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has set up an integrated surveillance TV control center in El Salvador to boost the public security capacity of the country’s PNC (National Civil Police).
KOICA on June 17 said it held a ceremony to mark the center’s completion at the PNC’s 911 Center in the capital of San Salvador.
The facility covers 423 square m with a situation bulletin system of 26 monitors and office equipment such as computers and monitors for 58 staff members.
Using the bulletin system, Salvadoran police can track criminals in real time, make arrests and detect unusual situations using 56 cameras to recognize license plates at 22 venues throughout San Salvador.
To raise the PNC’s capacity to prevent and investigate crimes, KOICA from 2010 made three investments worth a combined KRW 15 billion to raise public security and police capacity. Over the period, it set up 192 surveillance and license-plate recognition cameras, trained operating personnel and set up a surveillance camera system.
“Korea has provided continuous and valuable support to improve El Salvador’s public security,” El Salvador’s PNC Director-general and Commissioner Mauricio Arriaza Chicas said at the ceremony, expressing gratitude. “We will apply Korea’s model and strive to stabilize public order.”
Ambassador to El Salvador Choo Won-hoon added, “Through KOICA, we hope to build a safer El Salvador with support from the Korean government for public security that has continued for 15 years.”
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