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Huawei ‘Safe City’ Systems Are Ineffective, Crime Figures Show
Faulty cameras, heavy debt characterize much-hyped surveillance infrastructure
China has been heavily promoting its surveillance technology among client governments around the world, but apart from miring the locals in debt and raising national security risks, the projects have produced lackluster results.
Multiple cities in Pakistan have reported increased crime rates, even after installing “Safe City” infrastructure built by China’s state-linked tech company Huawei.
Completed in 2016 at a cost of about $100 million, the Safe City project in Islamabad boasts 1,950 surveillance cameras. Seventy-two screens in the Pakistani capital’s police headquarters help officers monitor the streets.
Huawei claimed that the endeavor would dramatically improve order, with a projected 15 percent reduction in violent crime. But while crime in Islamabad did fall in 2016, by the end of 2018, it had increased by 33 percent.
Pakistan is a key country in the “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative, the Chinese regime’s global infrastructure investment project. It has also been one of Beijing’s long-term allies.
Since 2015, Pakistan has engaged Huawei to build Safe City systems in nine cities.
Huawei claims that the Safe City project can substantially improve emergency response time, crime rates, and case-solving. But data from the country’s National Police Bureau shows that the overall crime rate rose by 11 percent.
No different than we are doing in the US.