Video surveillance begins in Chemnitz city centre
The video surveillance system in Chemnitz city centre goes into regular operation today. The project partners involved - the City of Chemnitz, the Chemnitz Police Department and CVAG - announced this today.
Accordingly, 25 of the 29 high-resolution cameras in the outdoor area and two in the CVAG mobility centre were put into operation today. The four cameras in the vicinity of the Galerie Roter Turm are expected to go into operation in the course of the month.
Video surveillance in the city centre serves to prevent and avert danger. The video surveillance is intended to prevent administrative offences and criminal offences. If necessary, the video recordings are used to provide objective evidence and prosecution in the event of offences and criminal offences. The city administration uses video surveillance to protect citizens from harassment, to combat disruptions to public safety and order, to protect against vandalism and littering and to enforce the ban on glass bottles and alcohol in the areas under video surveillance.
With the installation of the video technology, the following areas in the city centre are monitored:
- The entrance area of the Stadthalle,
- the Am Roten Turm park
- the bus stops and track areas on the Straße der Nationen between Brückenstraße and Rathausstraße,
- the central bus stop (Rathausstraße),
- the stops and track areas on Bahnhofstraße between Am Rathaus and Johannisplatz and on Bahnhofstraße between Reitbahnstraße and Zschopauer Straße,
- the area in front of the cultural department stores' "Das TIETZ" in the direction of Reitbahnstraße,
- the bus stop and track area on Reitbahnstraße between Bahnhofstraße and Moritzstraße
Passers-by are made aware of the monitored areas by means of appropriate signage. The data protection impact assessment has been prepared. The advice of the Saxon data protection officer, who was involved in the design from the outset, has been taken into account.
As live image users, the project partners City of Chemnitz, CVAG and C³ only have access to the areas they own. This also means access only to these respective cameras or only to corresponding image sections of the cameras. The Chemnitz police department is given access to all live images. In addition, the public order office and the Chemnitz police department are granted the right to access the data of all video cameras installed in connection with the concept of video surveillance in connection with the reporting and prosecution of misdemeanours and/or criminal offences. The stored data will be automatically deleted after ten days at the latest or the necessary data will be handed over to the police department or another law enforcement authority within this period with a criminal complaint or to the City of Chemnitz within this period for the prosecution of administrative offences.
For the city of Chemnitz, the recordings are analysed by the public order office. In addition to video surveillance, the operations coordination centre, which was set up by the end of October, will also manage the field operations of the employees of the city's public order service, traffic monitoring, stationary traffic and the central investigation services.