The Public Security Secretariat (SSP) of the Rio Grande do Sul expects police forces to start using body cameras in 2024. The winning company was approved at the beginning of the second half of April and the equipment was included in the State Price Registration Minutes this Thursday (25/4) by the Subsecretariat of the Central Tenders Administration (Celic), linked to the Secretariat of Planning, Governance and Management (SPGG). Registration in minutes ensures that other interested bodies can join in contracting the equipment.
The competition for hiring the body camera rental service, with four participating companies, was made by Celic in May 2023. This was the second open tender to hire a company to supply the equipment. In the first of these, held in December 2022, no company had met the notice requirements.
At the end of March 2023, the fourth place in the competition was called for practical tests to be carried out, one of the requirements for approval of the winner. The company made the equipment and access to the system available in the first week of April for technical evaluation. The top three placed did not meet all the requirements of the notice.
In total, 48 requirements were verified, including: battery life; the chain of custody (integrity in documenting and maintaining the chronology of facts and ensuring that images can become potential legal evidence); full-time recording; and the ability to record event data.
Also evaluated were user control, recording management, the report by a police operator, the GPS location report, the watermark (to identify the video) and the possibility of accessing the cameras during an incident in progress. The equipment presented by the company met all technical requirements.
The next step will be to preparation of the contract with the winning company by SSP. Once signed, a delivery schedule for the equipment may be published. However, the expectation is that the use of body cameras will begin in Porto Alegre in 2024.
The notice includes the acquisition of 1,100 body cameras, but the quantity can be doubled if the Public Administration wants to make a new acquisition. The service has a unit cost of R$589, which represents an initial investment by the State in new technology of approximately R$650 thousand.
The contracted company must provide the equipment on a lending basis. Furthermore, it will be responsible for capturing, transmitting, storing and sharing the data generated, following the determinations specified by the State security forces. Camera maintenanceIt will also be her responsibility.
Text: Lurdinha Matos/Ascom SSP
Editing: Rodrigo Toledo França/Secom
