Monitoring – web enhanced video control at stations – Süddeutsche.de

Monitoring – web enhanced video control at stations – Süddeutsche.de

• The German railway intends to equip their stations much faster than previously planned with video cameras. Next year, up to 700 additional cameras are to be installed in about 100 stations.
• 80 percent of passenger flows are already According train captured with video technology.

By Daniela Kuhr

700 additional cameras to 100 stations

The German railway intends to equip their stations much faster than previously planned with video cameras. Like the Süddeutsche Zeitung learned up to 700 more video cameras are to be installed in around 100 railway stations in the coming year. “We want to support the police quickly and easily in the fight against crime,” said Gerd Becht, who is responsible for the legal and corporate security in the DB management. Which stations are just concerned, the company places yet.

In the summer of 2013, the train had already agreed with the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Police to put more money into the development of video technology. By the year 2016 for 60 million euros will be spent, 15 million of them coming from the federal police.

Through this program, the web has now decided, however, as early as next year, at his own expense a lot more stations with video cameras equip. This should not only monitor the operation but store images up to 72 hours. This increases the path “is the number of stations significantly at which video is recorded,” Becht said. “The safety of our customers is our focus.”

How the security situation in the web

Basically, stations and trains relatively safe places to stop himself. The rail-transported every day more than 7.3 million people – more than twice as many as Berlin has to residents. But it comes at the web daily nationwide to 40 personal injury during happen in Berlin on average six times more.

However, the video surveillance at stations is at least since 2012, a big issue. After that time the Bonn Hauptbahnhof a bomb attack had failed, it had turned out that the path the crime scene are monitored but did not record any images. Because the record does not serve the security of the current operation, but the fight against crime, the Federal Police is responsible for it was then called.

Currently, the railways are nationwide 4800 cameras at 640 stations in operation. More 18000 video cameras are installed in regional and suburban trains. According train “80 percent of passenger flows already recorded with video technology” be it.