Casablanca’s Smart City Vision Delayed: 3,000 Surveillance Cameras Project Stalls

Just like the Arab League urban park and the velodrome, which will probably not be put into service before the end of this year, the project to equip Casablanca with an intelligent and optimized urban surveillance system, including a fleet of 3,000 video surveillance cameras, cannot be finalized, reports Le Challenge.

According to the site, which mentions the temporary cancellation of the award of a contract worth more than 400 million dirhams to the Spanish duo COMSA-Sice, which could explain this situation, to date, Casablanca has only about 600 video surveillance cameras, in addition to those of the tramway, connected by a fiber optic network of several kilometers of mesh to the Central Control Post (PCC) near the police headquarters, on Boulevard Zerktouni. An achievement when we know that at the end of 2013, the economic capital of the country had only 59 surveillance cameras.

However, the Kingdom is still far from the targeted objective, that of supporting the law enforcement and the security apparatus, in the effort to reduce crime in the city, especially known for the high level of crime and delinquency perpetrated there.