The Sinaloa Security Secretariat reported this Wednesday the dismantling of 82 illegal video surveillance cameras in Culiacán and Mazatlán, bringing the total number of these devices removed from public facilities in the state to 1,290.
According to a statement, an operation was deployed in which 14 devices were detected in Mazatlán and the rest in Culiacán. The illegal devices were located in the neighborhoods of Nuevo Culiacán, Vallado, Cañadas, Colinas de San Miguel, Guadalupe, Almada, Miguel Alemán, Los Pinos, and Rafael Buelna. Four wireless cameras capable of zooming, tilting, and panning were removed.
In addition, an access point, which allowed other electronic devices to connect to a network, and 64 fixed wired cameras were located.
Authorities stated that none of the confiscated devices were linked to the Sinaloa State Command, Control, Communications, Computing, and Intelligence Center (C4i) or the institutional surveillance system.
Amid security operations carried out by federal forces to contain the violence reported for several months on the streets of Sinaloa, the removal of illegal cameras installed by private individuals continues. However, attacks against local government surveillance equipment mounted on streetlights in Sinaloa have been reported.
In November 2024, authorities reported that during a violent day, 65 surveillance cameras had been damaged by gunfire in Culiacán, which the state government began replacing weeks later.
Source: latinus.us
