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The Secretary of State for Internal Administration Patrcia Gaspar said that the video surveillance component is a fundamental part of the dimension that has to do with the surveillance and protection of fires.In Cantanhede at the announcement session of the joint video surveillance project of the intermunicipal communities in the Region of Coimbra and Viseu Do Lafes the Secretary of State stated that video surveillance allows for strengthening the monitoring capacity of the entire forest and rural territory of the country and allows above all to detect the occurrence of rural fires earlier.Fires all start small. The sooner this detection is achieved the more effective the means of combat will be the easier it will be to fight these fires he added.Patrcia Gaspar also said that this video surveillance system for the regions of Coimbra and Viseu is one of the 11 systems that Portugal has already implemented or in the process of being implemented.The system which has a total cost of 3.87 million euros 75 financed by European funds includes among others 37 towers and an equal number of detection systems and 39 management and control centers.The project also involves the district relief operations commands CDOS of Aveiro Coimbra Viseu and Guarda the GNR Civil Protection and the Institute for Nature and Forest Conservation ICNF.
