The new video surveillance system which allows the reading license plates of road vehicles and to remotely check in real time whether those vehicles are circulating in order or whether they do not have insurance or inspection certification, or whether they are stolen, arrested or even deregistered. The system will be active from next December 1st and sanctions for violators can also be carried out remotely and arrive directly at home. There are six stations in the municipal area in which the license plate detection systems have been placed.
The cameras are placed in the following points: via Marsala alta at the Q8 refueling point, obelisk-roundabout at the entrance to the city, via Bessarione at the Pm command, Piazza Matteotti, Viale Africa and Sp38 Mazara-Torretta Granitola. The system allows you to monitor the number of vehicles in transit and is able to provide a real-time alert in the event of irregular circulation. The simulation carried out at the Municipal Police Headquarters showed how approximately 10-15% of the vehicles in transit detected by the cameras were not in compliance with inspection, insurance or both. And Mazara del Vallo is at this point one of the first municipalities in southern Italy to adopt this system to increase safety. “The system has already been active since the end of October and is being monitored – declared the mayor Salvatore Quinci – but from 1 December each alert received and confirmed will be followed by sanctions. We therefore invite everyone to comply with the rules of the highway code and to pay the utmost attention as well as to the guide to checking insurance and inspection deadlines. The video surveillance system which today is enriched with this innovative control opportunity will be further increased for everyone’s safety”. “There will be no need for the non-compliant vehicle to be stopped by a patrol – adds PM Bucca’s commander – but it will be possible to raise the sanctions remotely. Which we will do after a further database check that verifies the correspondence of the alert with the data entered in the motorization databases, in the case of inspections, and of Ania in the case of insurance”. “We are not proceeding to be punitive – underlines the municipal councilor for the Public Prosecutor Rino Giacalone – but to guarantee safety for everyone and enforce the rules. As anticipated by the mayor and the PM commander, the sanctions will start from December 1st”.
In short, the video surveillance system in the city continues to grow: 42 cameras were installed in 2021 to replace the previous ones, 58 were installed in the past years with the Safe Schools project (2018), 40 were recently installed in the project that includes six license plate reading cameras, four will soon be installed together with a single control system for all the cameras in the area with the single justice fund and 40 new cameras will be installed with the project Complementary legality POC already financed and presented on 18 October (the tender has yet to be activated). Further video surveillance systems are also in operation in Largo Dalla Chiesa, in the Gb Quinci car park and in Villa Jolanda for a total of 50 additional cameras. The objective is to unify the control of the entire video surveillance system and integrate it – as the mayor anticipated – also with images coming from private individuals who will authorize their use.
