Gwangju City and Autonomous Districts Promote Establishment of CCTV Video Information Sharing System

[Asia Economy Honam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Seon-gang] Gwangju Metropolitan City announced on the 24th that it will actively promote the construction project of a video information sharing system this year to jointly utilize CCTV video information for illegal parking enforcement managed by autonomous districts for crime prevention purposes.

The video sharing system is a project to build a system that jointly utilizes video information for crime, disaster, accident prevention by linking 1,350 illegal parking enforcement CCTVs operated at 348 locations by autonomous districts with the Gwangju City CCTV Integrated Control Center.

To this end, in August last year, the city signed a business cooperation agreement with five autonomous districts, LG Uplus Co., Ltd., the contractor for the CCTV communication network construction project of the city CCTV Integrated Control Center, and Innodep Co., Ltd., a video surveillance specialist company operating the video surveillance solution of the CCTV Integrated Control Center.

For the full-scale system construction, a design service company was selected in January, and from next month, an analysis of illegal parking enforcement systems by autonomous district and an on-site survey of CCTV installation status at each location will be conducted.

The basic and detailed designs will be completed by April, and the main construction will begin in May, with the system expected to be built by the end of this year.

Until now, Gwangju City has installed and operated crime prevention CCTVs according to the Child Welfare Act and Pedestrian Safety Act, while autonomous districts have installed and operated illegal parking enforcement CCTVs in school zones and other areas according to the Road Traffic Act.

Once the system is established, it will secure a safety infrastructure capable of rapid response to emergencies such as crime prevention and disasters.

Also, CCTVs that were operated in close proximity at the same locations are planned to be relocated to newly established areas, effectively installing a total of 1,650 new CCTVs, which is expected to save more than 5 billion KRW in budget.

Jung Min-gon, Director of the Citizen Safety Office of the city, said, “We will continue to expand a more thorough social safety net and minimize crime blind spots so that citizens can enjoy a safe and happy life.”