Chihuahua.- The continuous and almost essential use of technology to carry out many human activities in various sectors of the modern world has become a common practice to facilitate and make their development easier and more efficient, including police operations resulting in better public safety performance.
It is not an exception in the municipality of Chihuahua, as the implementation of advanced technology in this area has achieved a significant reduction in the incidence of crimes in the main crimes: house robbery, commercial robbery, car robbery and commercial robbery. among others of equal importance.
In 2018, the Chihuahua Shield Platform (Pecuu) was opened, with the concrete aim of promoting virtual surveillance in the city, as well as contributing video recorded material to investigations conducted by the state authorities. Thanks for bringing important cases before public ministry and judicial authority.
More than 1,500 cameras installed at strategic points in the urban area, as well as totems placed in trailers, parks and main thoroughfares, a Halcon I helicopter and other equipment to add security, drones and platforms were procured. To carry out operations from the air.
Thanks to their versatility and ease of use, these devices act as aerial police and are used to track vehicles or people following them over vast distances, or to search for the injured in mountains or forested areas where human access is difficult.
The capital's police drones can reduce the risks to personnel involved in high-impact events, patrol rural communities, in addition to sporting events and tours of dams and water bodies, replacing the Halcón I helicopter in some situations.
Also, from the ground, experts can also observe areas classified as dangerous areas before entering them, for example, in case of explosions or fires, to inspect the affected area.
For its management and maintenance, the Public Safety Directorate's Flight Operations Division has five licensed drone pilots duly certified by the Federal Civil Aviation Agency; Two of them are pilots by profession, a meteorologist and two commandants of the city police.
Aviator pilot Mauricio Ferreiro López from the aforementioned group, from March 2018 to date, several hundreds of operations and rescues have been carried out with these devices, and more than a thousand interventions, since they have thermal cameras. The location of people or things is day and night.
The DSPM has a flying autonomy of up to 50 minutes and a strike radius of 10 to 15 kilometers, depending on the environment, can be assembled easily and respond quickly at the right time, the official explained. In an emergency.
