Algiers Video Surveillance and Traffic Command Centre

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Algiers is covered by a camera network operated by the Direction générale de la Sûreté nationale from a command-and-control centre in the Sidi M'Hamed administrative district. In April 2024 the interior ministry put 1,837 cameras in service and a further 5,592 planned for full coverage of the capital. The same centre also hosts the capital's traffic-decongestion plan and the intelligent traffic-light management system, so surveillance and signal timing are supervised from one room — one run by the national police, not by the city.

Live 📅 since null

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence• No measured figure

Run byDirection générale de la Sûreté nationale (DGSN)

Scale🏙️ City-wide

🎓 Lesson

Putting the camera grid and the traffic lights in the same command centre is efficient and makes the police the de facto traffic authority. It is also why the earlier city-led signal project stalled: the wilaya could install the hardware, but authorising the cameras was never its call. Every figure published about this network describes effort — cameras installed, cameras planned — and none describes result.

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Sources

↗ Ministère de l'Intérieur (authority, via Algerie Eco)Load-bearing count and operator, 6 April 2024: 1,837 cameras operational and a project to add 5,592 more for full coverage of the capital, presented to Interior Minister Brahim Merad at the 'Centre de commandement et de contrôle de la Direction générale de la Sûreté nationale (DGSN), dans la circonscription administrative de Sidi M'Hamed'.

↗ Algerie Eco (press)Same visit, 6 April 2024: the briefing at the DGSN command centre covered 'le plan de désengorgement du trafic routier' alongside the camera expansion — the source for the two functions sharing one centre. The minister asked officials to 'tout mettre en œuvre pour accélérer la cadence de réalisation de ces projets'.

↗ Al Jazair Al Youm (press, quoting the interior minister)Arabic original of the same 6 April 2024 statement, verbatim: 'عدد كميرات المراقبة المنصبة على مستوى ولاية الجزائر العاصمة يبلغ 1837 كاميرا في الشطر الأول ، و5592 كاميرا في الشطر الثاني' — 1,837 cameras in the first tranche and 5,592 in the second, 7,429 in total; also mentions 260 traffic signals as a first phase and an upgrade of the command centre itself.

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📟 A Reading Is Not a Decision 🛡️ Safety & security guide 🏙️ Algiers city profile 📡 Data & IoT projects 📖 Automated speed enforcement (speed cameras)📖 Adaptive traffic signals 📖 ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition)

📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Algiers Video Surveillance and Traffic Command Centre” — Algiers, Algeria. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/algiers-dgsn-video-surveillance/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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