Regulations on the observation center safe city. Safe City Program
More than 70 thousand intercom IP video surveillance systems BEWARD and more than 15 thousand high-speed dome IP cameras BEWARD installed in the Safe City project on multi-apartment residential buildings in Moscow.
Objective of the project:
In 2011 the Department information technologies The Government of Moscow, within the framework of the Safe City program, held competitions for the provision of . The purpose of the program is to ensure the comprehensive safety of city residents. The National Cable Networks Company (NCS), one of the leading telecom operators, has won tenders for the provision of video surveillance services in three administrative districts capitals - Northeast, Southwest and Northwest. As a hardware base, NKS chose the equipment BEWARD- the leading Russian manufacturer in the security market.
Yard video surveillance
An IP camera was chosen for the yard video surveillance project BEWARD BD75-1-VP dome performance. This camera's video module using the 960H high-definition sensor from SONY, mounted on a high-speed rotary device. The camera provides all-round continuous 360° panning, as well as smooth tracking even at high magnification. In low light conditions, the camera sensitivity can be automatically increased many times (sensor charge accumulation mode). This provides round-the-clock video surveillance, including in difficult and rapidly changing lighting conditions. The special design of the body and the suspension of the camera provides not only ease of installation, but also resistance to external factors such as moisture or dust. The vandal-resistant clear dome can withstand high impact loads, which reduces the risk of IP camera exit BEWARD BD75-1P out of order as a result of the actions of intruders.
Access video surveillance
Specially for the driveway video surveillance project, the engineers of NPP Bevard LLC developed a set of IP video surveillance systems, which consists of a high-resolution outdoor anti-vandal video camera, a video signal transmission and coding system. The video camera is equipped with a built-in panic button, speaker and microphone with the ability to connect to duplex audio communication systems. Thanks to this, remote visual and audio control of video devices installation sites can be organized. At the same time, the power supply of the camera and signal transmission produced by one twisted pair without loss of quality at distances up to 150 meters. At night, a powerful IR-illumination, built on the basis of third-generation LEDs, is turned on. Unlike standard video intercoms, the wide angle of illumination and the presence of feedback LEDs with a photosensitive element of the camera allows you to avoid flare and provide a uniform high-quality image throughout the entire field of view of the camera, even in the absence of lighting.
All information received from CCTV cameras is transmitted to the Data Processing Center (DPC) in Moscow. Video coding system BEWARD provides maximum compression efficiency with minimal loss of quality, which allows you to store a huge amount of video information for a long time.
Company BEWARD in again has proven its ability not only to develop and test an innovative high-tech product in the shortest possible time, but also to ensure thorough quality control in mass production, which has already been proven by the smooth operation of this equipment as part of a huge-scale video surveillance system approaching one hundred thousand video channels.
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The concept of construction and development of the "Safe City" complex developed by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia.
As conceived by the authors of the concept, the goal of the program is to increase the level of public safety, law and order and the safety of the environment. This should happen by improving the coordination of the activities of forces and responsible services.
The Safe City concept provides for a reduction in the number of crimes, a reduction in the risks of emergencies, an increase in the protection of the population and territories from natural and technogenic nature, ensuring fire safety and safety of people at water bodies, information security, etc.
The list of the main results of the implementation of the concept, in addition to the possibilities of modeling various scenarios for the emergence of potential threats and taking measures to eliminate such threats, etc., also includes such an item that is far from safe as “improving the image of executive authorities”.
The concept is expected to be implemented at all levels of government - federal, regional and municipal.
At the federal level, the main coordinator for the implementation and development of the Safe City complex in the constituent entities Russian Federation, as well as the main manager of budgetary funds is the Ministry of Emergency Situations. 22 departments take part in the implementation of the measures, including the Federal Security Service, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Communications, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Security Service, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Education and Science, etc.
Recall that Russia is already implementing emergency response systems 112, responding to car accidents "ERA GLONASS", urban photo and video surveillance systems and other state security programs. All of them, according to the concept, should be integrated and used as efficiently as possible. "Safe City" is designed to integrate existing security systems.
The instrument for financing activities for the construction and development of the "Safe City" complex is the federal target program.
The lack of a coherent picture and interaction discredits the existing security systems, said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin earlier. “The Russian Federation and its subjects are investing very serious resources in the creation of various information security systems. There are many of these systems, like mushrooms in the forest, but we do not see a complete picture. The lack of interaction between all these systems, in fact, discredits the whole project. And it does not solve the problem of preventing natural and man-made threats.”
According to the order of the Russian government, from now on, the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local governments are recommended to be guided by the provisions of the concept when solving problems in the field of security.
Emergency response system 112. Help
In Russia, the number 112 is a single call number for emergency response services: fire brigade; emergency response; the police; emergency medical care; gas network emergency service; service "Antiterror". Number 112 is available free of charge, you can dial it without any money on your account and even without a SIM card in your phone.
The main goals of creating System-112 in the Russian Federation are the organization of calling emergency services on the principle of "one window"; acceleration of response and improvement of interaction of emergency operational services in case of calls; harmonization of the method of calling emergency services in the Russian Federation with the legislation of the European Union.
System-112 involves receiving from the telecom operator information about the location of the person who applied, providing remote psychological support face; automatic connection recovery in case of its sudden interruption; maintaining a database of the main characteristics of incidents, the ability to receive calls (incident reports) in foreign languages.
In the summer, the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, Vladimir Puchkov, said that by the end of the year, the 112 system would work in all Russian cities with a population of more than 100,000 inhabitants.
We present the content and priorities of the "Safe City" program adopted in Moscow for 2012-2016, in the first person - Vasily Oleinik, First Deputy Head of the Moscow Regional Security Department.
- The year 2011 was marked by an increase in the attention of the Moscow leadership to ensuring the safety of residents, the safety of property and business. Please tell Vasily Vasilyevich about priority areas activities of the Moscow government in the field of security issues in 2011
The Moscow Government pays attention to the issues of ensuring the safety of the city and its residents, and takes targeted comprehensive measures in this area.
First of all, much is being done to maintain a decent standard of living for Muscovites, the stability of all spheres of the city's life. The important task of creating an effective security system in the capital capable of fending off existing and predicted threats to the city, including reducing crime, is being steadily addressed. A system of crime prevention has been built, primarily among minors, young people, and other categories of citizens. The authorities of the city are working to strengthen interethnic and interreligious harmony, to prevent extremist manifestations.
Currently Team work The government of Moscow, law enforcement agencies and the public in the field of law enforcement and the fight against crime has made it possible to achieve some reduction in crime in the city. In 2011, the decrease in crime in Moscow compared to 2010 was 6.6%. The number of serious crimes such as murder, robbery and robbery has decreased. Decreased by 21.6% the number of burglaries. The number of crimes committed by foreign citizens decreased by 25.8%. At the same time, there are still many unresolved tasks in ensuring the safety of the city and its inhabitants. The number of extremist crimes has increased. Existing threats of criminogenic, terrorist, technogenic and natural character require increased efforts to ensure the security of residents, urban facilities, strengthening the rule of law and actively combating crime.
In September 2011, the State Program of the City of Moscow "Safe City" for 2012-2016 was adopted. The result of the implementation of the program, first of all, should be a real increase in the level of security of the city and its residents.
- What are the contents and priorities of the approved program "Safe City" for 2012-2016?
Safe City program for 2012-2016 is a complex, large-scale program. It consists of four subprograms. Each of them contains measures aimed both at countering specific types of crimes and security threats, and at strengthening the material and technical base, equipping all security entities with modern information systems. First subroutine- Ensuring law and order and crime prevention. The main amount of funds - 62% - will go to it. To achieve the goals and solve problems in the fight against crime, it is planned to implement in 2012-2016. a whole range of measures.
Activities are planned for:
1) combating organized crime;
2) prevention of grave and especially grave crimes (it is expected to reduce this type of crime by 10-15%);
3) strengthening public security in the residential sector, on the streets, in places of mass stay and recreation of citizens;
4) prevention and suppression of economic crimes.
A decrease in the criminalization of the economy as a result of the measures taken is expected to be 20-25%. The subprogram provides for the creation of security systems in crowded places, such as the subway, railway stations, bus stations, stadiums and other facilities. In accordance with the subprogram, it is also planned to equip up to 60-65% of transport infrastructure, municipal facilities, social sphere and sports, unique, high-altitude and underground structures, places with mass stay of people.
Second subroutine- prevention of emergencies.
The expected results of its implementation should be:
1) annual reduction in the number of fires by 2%;
2) equipping the fire departments of the Federal fire service, fire and rescue units and emergency rescue units in the city, units of voluntary fire protection modern technology up to 75% by 2016;
3) equipping the Moscow Civil Protection Department and fire departments modern systems communication and data transmission up to 98% by 2016, etc.
Third subroutine - mobilization training economy of the city of Moscow. The subprogram is aimed at:
1) holding maintenance systems and equipment for mobilization facilities;
2) replacement of equipment and property that have served the established deadlines at mobilization facilities and the solution of other issues in this area.
Fourth subroutine- prevention and suppression of crimes in the field of migration legislation.
The subprogram provides for the implementation of a set of measures to:
1) elimination of the socio-economic foundations of illegal migration;
2) improvement of legal regulatory framework in the field of migration;
3) creation and updating of a regional data bank for accounting foreign citizens temporarily or permanently residing in Moscow;
4) return to their homeland of migrants illegally staying in the city.
Efforts will be stepped up to curb the illegal activities of organizations that provide illegal intermediary services in employment, documentation, legalization of foreign citizens, as well as agencies and organizations that invite foreign citizens to the Russian Federation and provide knowingly unreliable information about their household and housing arrangements. This subprogram provides:
Annual reduction by 10-12% of the number of foreign citizens arriving in the city in violation of the current legislation;
An annual increase of 10-15% in the number of foreign workers legally exercising their labor activity from individuals;
Annual decrease by 1.5-2% in the number of crimes committed by nonresident and foreign citizens.
A feature of the Safe City program is the active involvement of the public in ensuring safety in the metropolis, primarily in crime prevention.
There are currently 765 strongholds of law enforcement in Moscow. More than 20,000 citizens work there - as a rule, they are former law enforcement officers and active Muscovites.
The Moscow People's Squad is actively working, numbering over 20 thousand people. This is a significant force.
- How do you plan to improve approaches to improve road safety? What work is being carried out in the field of automatic traffic control systems and complexes for photo and video recording of violations?
The Department of Transport and Development of Road Transport Infrastructure of the City of Moscow has developed the state program of the city of Moscow "Development of the transport system of the city of Moscow for 2012-2016", which includes a subprogram "Organization of traffic in the city. Creation of an intelligent transport system".
The "Safe City" program provides for specific measures to ensure road safety. Particular attention will be paid to equipping all regulated pedestrian crossings of the city with means of communication notification, and road junctions - with automatic systems for deicing road surfaces. will receive further development a network of traffic lights, road signs and billboards, supports and signs. It is planned to build and reconstruct 680 traffic lights. The implementation of the program will make it possible to reduce the number of traffic accidents and deaths in them by 2-3% annually, as well as the number of administrative offenses in the field of road safety compared to 2010.
- Tell us separately about the plans and tasks for equipping streets and other public places with video surveillance systems. What are the key issues to be addressed? How will this system be organized for effective monitoring?
Today in the city there are a large number of video cameras of various accessories and with different quality of the resulting image. More than 86 thousand entrances of residential buildings are equipped with video surveillance systems. Information from video cameras in the residential sector and crowded places is sent to the operational control center of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow.
About 2.5 thousand video cameras have been installed at the city's sports facilities, which monitor the territory, spectator stands, and auxiliary facilities. At the same time, the quality of video information does not always allow law enforcement agencies to use it to solve crimes.
Currently, a set of measures is being carried out to ensure, starting from 2012, a phased transfer of the city's video surveillance system to operation according to the "service model", which involves two technological levels:
1) the level of a single video surveillance data storage center;
2) the level of service operators.
A single data storage center will ensure the collection, storage, processing of video information, regulated user access to it, information interaction with video surveillance subsystems of other city and departmental systems, including the city's intelligent transport system.
Video surveillance service operators will ensure continuous, round-the-clock operation of video surveillance systems in their area of responsibility, as well as prompt access to them from a single center. High-quality video surveillance equipment will be installed at the entrances of residential buildings and intra-quarter territories of the residential sector, places of mass stay of citizens, territories adjacent to potentially dangerous objects, objects of education of the city.
It is assumed that the video surveillance system being created will raise the quality of video information, the speed of its processing and the response of the relevant structures to significant events to a new level through the introduction intelligent systems. This will significantly increase the detection of crimes using CCTV cameras - up to 30-35% by the end of 2016. This is the European level.
- What is the main task of modernizing video surveillance systems in the city?
The main task of modernizing video surveillance systems is to increase the level of security for city residents through the use of modern information and communication technologies.
The key requirements for the equipment and services of contractors are determined by the state customer for the provision of video surveillance services - the Department of Information Technologies of the City of Moscow. They have already developed and agreed with the Department of Regional Security of the city of Moscow, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow, the Federal Security Service of Russia for Moscow and the Moscow Region, the Federal Security Service of Russia technical specifications, installation locations for video surveillance cameras, the procedure and criteria for accepting work.
- Is foreign experience in the implementation of "Safe City" programs being studied? What positive international practices do you consider useful for Moscow?
More than 30 executive authorities of the city (departments, committees, administrations) and a number of public organizations actively participated in the development of the program.
Experts from federal territorial law enforcement agencies were involved in the preparation of the draft program, including the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow, the Office of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for Moscow and the Moscow Region, the Department for Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Central Federal District, the Office of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation for Moscow, the Office of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Moscow, the Office of the Federal Migration Service for Moscow, other law enforcement agencies and public organizations of Moscow.
When developing the program, foreign experience was taken into account. We studied the experience of American, European and Asian colleagues in ensuring the technical security of social facilities, sports, culture and urban facilities. Implementation of the activities of the "Safe City" program will actually increase the security of city facilities and the personal safety of every Muscovite.
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The Security Council accuses the regions that the "Safe City" is usually used only to replenish local budgets through fines and is not able to ensure the safety of citizens, including at the upcoming 2018 World Cup.
At a recent meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission of the Security Council, big generals from various departments discussed the "Safe City" system. These are hardware-software complexes of emergency terminals and video cameras that monitor order in megacities and smaller cities around the clock. The experience of using the "Safe City" upset the commission: often the entire system consists only of video cameras that do not see anything at night and have poor resolution. Recordings from them are usuallytraffic cops use to punish violators and replenish local budgets. Russia in a year and a half will have to meet the World Cup, and the "Safe City", as they say in the Security Council, is simply not ready for this. Security officials also fear that the system is theoretically hackable by hackers. As a result, the commission obliged the regional authorities to put the system in order.
Life's source in the special services said that the meeting on the "Safe City" began for health. Deputy Minister of Emergency Situations Alexander Chupriyan and head of the main scientific division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - NPO "Special Equipment and Communications" - Andrey Nechaev spoke. They said that the basis for the development of the system had already been created and that the regional authorities had agreed on how they should interact.
However, it soon became clear that, although there was an agreement, there was no technological base. Equipment in different regions is scattered, and even does not reach the minimum technical requirements. Hardware and software are often incompatible with each other, conflicts arise when exchanging data. Cameras that should be able to record an event down to the smallest detail, whether it be a simple theft of a wallet or a serious robbery, in fact in several regions do not even allow you to see the numbers on the cars.
The video cameras available in a number of regions are often not equipped with a night mode, have a low resolution, which does not allow you to examine in detail the elements of the situation, recognize the appearance of a person or read the license plates of cars, the source of the statement of the meeting participants cites.
To top it off, the speakers spoke about one more problem. Records that can be used, for example, to find and identify a killer, a villain or a simple offender and help solve a crime, are stored on servers for no more than five days. But the biggest problem, the speakers note, is not even in this, but in the fact that informational resources and the servers of the regional "Safe Cities" have not yet been united "into one information space".
The reasons for this sad situation, according to the commission, were poor funding and poor wages for those who sit on the other side of the monitor and watch all the thousands of cameras. As a result, there is no proper technical equipment, but there is a staff turnover.
To cope with these problems, the Interdepartmental Commission proposed to increase funding for the Safe City program and raise the salaries of employees who work with this system. Money, noted in the commission, should be taken not only from the budget. If the proposals are accepted, then the money for the maintenance of video surveillance systems will be taken from private funds. For example, the owners shopping centers or sports facilities. In a separate paragraph, there are instructions to unite the disparate bases into one and connect the National Guard to them.
Another concern of the commission was the approaching World Cup - the text of the report directly states that the "Safe City" is not ready to receive such a massive competition.
The Ministry of Emergency Situations emphasized that not a single city participating in the 2018 World Cup in Russia is not only ready to ensure security at the championship with the help of cameras, but has not even begun to install them.
On the this stage none of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation hosting the 2018 World Cup has launched a competition for the construction of segments of the Safe City agro-industrial complex, the department noted.
Therefore, those cities that will host the championship were required to complete all work on the creation of key segments of the Safe City by the end of 2017.
Another concern of the developers of "Safe City" is related to foreign hackers. and hundreds of times in 2015–2016 they attacked Russia's critical information infrastructure, banks and government websites. At the meeting, they noted that cameras and other technical stuffing of the "Safe City" are not immune from hacker attacks, therefore, they recommended that the regions pay special attention to this.
The Safe City program was launched in Russia in 2005. The first automated control systems for video surveillance in public places first appeared as an experiment in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Yekaterinburg. The initiator then was the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the person of the head of the Department of Public Order, Lieutenant General Nikolai Pershutkin.
A year later, the general was already boasting of the results of the experiment. According to him, in public places where there were cameras, street crime decreased by 11-17%. These are robberies, robberies and just hooligan antics.
Nikolai Pershutkin, on behalf of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, at all meetings with regional authorities urged them to look for money in the bottom of the barrel, in the local budget and from businessmen in order to build a "Safe City".
And in 2007, the government decided to launch the "Safe City" hardware and software complex in all cities of the Russian Federation. During this time, something went wrong.
For nine years of operation, the video surveillance and video recording systems installed in the regions at the expense of local budgets do not at all provide citizens with protection from man-made and natural threats, and crimes too, complain to Life at the Ministry of Emergencies.
In 2014, the government decided that a concept for the development of a "Safe City" was needed, which was prepared by an interdepartmental group led by the Ministry of Emergency Situations, namely the deputy head of the department, Alexander Chupriyan.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in 2016, 207 Safe City complexes are already operating in Russia, which include over 160,000 video surveillance cameras. In total, 750 cities are connected to the program and settlements. The Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation told Life that the creation of the Safe City global complex in Russia is planned to be completed by 2020.
The system shows good results in Moscow, Vologda, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Tver, Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg, Rostov, Kazan, - told Life in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Moscow is considered one of the leaders in the creation of the Safe City APK.
Now 128,500 video surveillance cameras are operating in the capital, including in the entrances of residential buildings, in courtyards, schools, places of mass stay of citizens, on roads and trade facilities, the Department of Regional Security of the capital told Life.
According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for Moscow, in 2015, with the help of the Safe City APK, almost 1,800 crimes were solved in the capital, which is 300 more than in 2014.
From the Moscow budget for "Safe City" for last years more than 143 billion rubles have been allocated. The regions have different budgets. Thus, the Kaliningrad region allocated 450 million rubles from the budget in 2015 and 2016 to create the system. The central streets of Kaliningrad and most of the city's microdistricts have already been equipped with video surveillance cameras. In Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory, about 200 million rubles were allocated from the regional budget for the implementation of the Safe City agro-industrial complex in the period from 2014 to 2016. In Pyatigorsk, the round-the-clock video surveillance system has already covered about a thousand socially significant objects. And in Ufa, more than 300 video cameras operate in the "Safe City" surveillance video surveillance system.
Security experts say urban surveillance systems in Russia are still in their infancy. Although in some sectors - for example, video surveillance in transport - there is progress.
Now in Russia there is no global operating safe city, in fact it is still only video surveillance. In the world, this is a completely different concept, this is the so-called smart city, when all services and urban infrastructure are tied to this system. And we only determined in 2014 how it should look like, before that everyone understood the concept of a safe city in their own way, - Elena Semyonova, a representative of the Skyros company involved in the installation of automation and video surveillance systems, explained Life.
The main problems of the industry, according to Semyonova, are now associated with the storage of a huge amount of information, fragmentation of data and the cost of purchasing and maintaining equipment. Semyonova, by her own experience, confirmed the theses expressed at the meeting - indeed, there are many difficulties due to incompatible software and the fact that equipment from different manufacturers is not always easy to synchronize and bring to a common denominator. At the same time, according to the expert, everything is moving towards bringing all the data together, but this process can take years.
As for the problems with the preparation of the "Safe City" for the 2018 World Cup, then Elena Semyonova refrained from direct assessments of whether the regions will have time to install this system before the championship or not. She only noted that the authorities of the regions hosting the World Cup had already tried to organize tenders for the installation of video surveillance systems in 2016, but the auctions had to be postponed, apparently due to funding problems.
But there are also positive moments in the development of the Safe City.
Despite a number of problems that have not yet been resolved, the quality of systems related to control and video surveillance in Russia is steadily growing. public transport and on the roads, - said the expert.