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NÎMES The video-verbalisation arrives before the end of the year!


The Nîmes Métropole urban video surveillance supervision center (Photo Norman Jardin Archives)

The City of Nîmes, with the support of the Inter-Urban Video-Protection Center (CIUVP), deploys and operates a system of 553 cameras throughout the municipal territory.

This means has the legal purpose of preventing attacks on the safety of persons and property in places exposed to the risk of aggression, theft or drug trafficking; the protection of public buildings and facilities and their surroundings; the regulation of transport flows; the detection of violations of traffic rules and, more recently, the prevention and detection of violations relating to the abandonment of garbage, waste, materials or other objects.

« The finding of an increase in behavior that is both dangerous and harmful to the living environment of the people of Nîmes has led the City to commit to this process of verbalization. The objective is to create a real complementarity for greater efficiency between field agents and sworn agents at work on video protection explains Deputy Public Security Officer Richard Schieven.

In its desire to fight more effectively against dangerous or uncivil behavior that generates road safety, environmental damage and deterioration of the living environment of its inhabitants, the city of Nîmes wishes to use video surveillance for two new purposes which are the observation of infringements of traffic rules with the fight against irresponsible parking behavior, with the fight against anarchic parking but also the prevention and observation of infringements relating to the abandonment of garbage, waste, materials or other objects.

It is also a question of combating faulty behavior that can be considered as a disruptive factor in living together, such as rodeos (or runs) or any other deviant behavior on the public highway. Experienced as veritable attacks and provocations by citizens, they are a source of nuisance and public order disturbances. They also represent a danger for other road users and generate a real feeling of insecurity. They are added to other threats to public tranquility and sometimes make life very difficult for our constituents.

These violations of the Highway Code also have consequences on the movement of emergency and rescue service vehicles, the quality of public passenger transport services and the collection of waste and the removal of household waste. They affect their daily functioning, and their service providers are the source of many reports in this regard.

By combating uncontrolled parking, this system will also make it possible to refocus field staff on priority missions of public safety and crime prevention, by strengthening local presence and contact with citizens.

Finally, this remote verbalization makes it possible to respond in real time to requests received by the community. Therefore, video-verbalization appears to be a complementary tool to appease the use of public roads and spaces by seeking better cohabitation of users, to limit the nuisances associated with urban travel, to optimize the rotations of public passenger transport, to secure the mobility and interventions of emergency and rescue service vehicles.

The effective area will be that between the following lanes. Boulevard Gambetta, Quai de la Fontaine Sud, Place Aristide-Briand, Place du Maréchal Foch, Avenue Franklin-Roosevelt (from Place du Maréchal Foch to Avenue Georges-Pompidou, Rue de Verdun, Place Séverine, Avenue Jean- Jaurès, Place des Martyrs de la Résistance, Boulevard du Sergent Triaire, Boulevard Natoire, Avenue du Général Leclerc, Boulevard Talabot, Rue Pierre-Sémard, Rue Sully, Rue Vincent-Faïta (from rue Pierre Sully to boulevard Étienne-Saintenac) and Boulevard Etienne Saintenac.

Implementation planned after the upcoming Harvest Feria.

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