Suwon's Urban Safety Integrated Center Attracts Benchmarking Visits from Around the World

[Suwon Ilbo=Seo Dong-young] Local governments, enterprises and organizations from both domestic and international sources continue to visit Suwon's Urban Safety Integrated Center to benchmark its operating 'smart city system.'

The smart city system is an urban management system that efficiently operates CCTV and traffic systems using cutting-edge IT (information and communications technology) and provides citizens with various information.

The city's smart city system has been evaluated as effective in establishing a safe urban environment, prompting government officials, local government representatives, corporate executives and institutional leaders from both home and abroad to continuously visit the Urban Safety Integrated Center.

From January this year through now, approximately 680 people from 45 domestic and international organizations including Mongolia, China, India, and Vietnam have visited the Urban Safety Integrated Center to examine smart city-related systems and services. Since its opening in 2012, the center has received approximately 7,000 visitors.

On the 14th, twenty executives from French construction and architectural companies visited the Urban Safety Integrated Center as part of a Korea-France Chamber of Commerce and Industry training program. On the 18th, a delegation from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, a sister city of Suwon, visited the center.

The Urban Safety Integrated Center operates the smart city system by integrating it into ▲Smart City CCTV Integrated Platform ▲Crime and Disaster Prevention ▲Traffic Information System ▲Civil Administration ▲Facility Management ▲Environment (including water circulation services) ▲Internet Portal Sites and other areas.

The Smart City CCTV Integrated Platform is coordinated with police departments and fire departments through services including '112 Emergency Video Support Service,' '112 Emergency Response Support Service,' and 'Disaster and Safety Situation Emergency Response Support Service.' When incidents or accidents are reported to police departments or fire departments, the Urban Safety Integrated Center provides video footage from around the accident location, enabling police and firefighters to immediately understand the situation and respond, thus securing the golden hour.

Currently, 47 monitoring personnel working in the CCTV Integrated Command Center are monitoring approximately 10,700 CCTV cameras installed across 3,524 locations in the city 24 hours a day. When monitoring personnel detect scenes threatening citizen safety on CCTV, they immediately notify the 112 command center.

Over the past three years, video footage totaling 17,785 cases has been provided, and criminal arrests utilizing this footage amount to 2,675 cases. Suspects involved in violent crimes, traffic accidents, theft, and sexual offenses have been arrested. From May 2015 to December 2018, criminal arrests through video footage provision reached 3,057 cases. Video footage provided to police during the same period totaled 26,034 cases.