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C4 Command Centre & the 123 Emergency Line

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The city says it watches about 13,000 feeds. Auditors keep finding its own cameras dark: 1,367 of the 5,824 the district owns were out of service in May 2026.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing
Evidence📊 Independent
what does this mean?The strongest source is an independent non-academic evaluation: an audit office, a government or EU review, or an NGO. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run bySecretaría Distrital de Seguridad, Convivencia y Justicia (SDSCJ)
Scale🏙️ City-wide
Cost≈COP 108,000M across ten camera-maintenance contracts, 2021-2023 (Contraloría)
FundingBogotá district budget (Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad, Convivencia y Justicia)

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Bogotá's district security secretariat runs the C4 command centre, which moved into its purpose-built site off Calle 20 in 2016 and houses the 123 emergency line that merged the city's separate police, fire, health and traffic numbers back in May 2007. The city says it now watches about 13,000 public and private feeds from the C4 and ten control rooms inside police stations, and has added licence-plate recognition and BriefCam analytics that it says compress hours of recording into minutes. It does not publish how many of those feeds it owns — the district's own fleet stood at 5,824 cameras in 2026. Auditors keep finding that fleet dark: 1,367 of those cameras were out of service in May 2026, and the Contraloría found roughly 45% down under the 2021-2023 maintenance contracts.

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📊 Impact

1,367 of 5,824 district-owned cameras (23.5%) were out of service in May 2026, per a right-of-petition response released by councillor Diana Diago — worst in Los Mártires (35.9%) and Santa Fe (32.9%). The Contraloría de Bogotá earlier found about 45% of the same 5,824 cameras out of service under the 2021-2023 maintenance contracts, and set fiscal findings of COP 5,379M for duplicate payments and charges for maintaining cameras that were already dead.

🎓 Lesson

Integration is cheaper to announce than maintenance is to perform. Bogotá added 1,676 feeds in two years while roughly a quarter of the cameras it already owned sat dark, and no published evaluation — academic, audit or police — says whether any of it moves crime, clearance rates or response times.

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Sources

↗ Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad (operator)Operator's C4 / Línea 123 programme page. Automated fetches returned 503; page existence and content confirmed via search results.
↗ Alcaldía de Bogotá — 13,000 cameras (5 Mar 2026)Dated operator figure: "cerca de 13.000 cámaras integradas de entidades públicas y privadas"; 310 multisensor cameras in 2025 and 291 planned for 2026; 1,676 feeds integrated over two years; 1,200 traffic cameras connected; names BriefCam ("analizar en minutos horas de grabación") and an LPR system; ten control rooms in police stations. No public/private split given.
↗ Alcaldía de Bogotá — private camera registration (8 Mar 2026)How private feeds join: owners register at argos.scj.gov.co; cameras must be colour, 2MP minimum and pointed at public space. Repeats the ~13,000 total and the ten control rooms.
↗ Alcaldía de Bogotá — new C4 opens (10 May 2016)Dates the current C4: first stage inaugurated at Calle 20 No 68 A 06, with the emergency line already running there for three weeks. Confirms Línea 123 as one of seven agencies inside the centre. City had 570 cameras then, only 300 working.
↗ Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad — 123 line turns 17 (May 2024)Dates NUSE 123 to May 2007, when 50 operators replaced the separate 112 (police), 119 (fire), 125 (health) and 127 (traffic) numbers.
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↗ Contraloría de Bogotá — maintenance findings (Dec 2024)District audit office: COP 5,379M in fiscal findings on 2021-2023 contracts covering 5,824 cameras, ~45% out of service; duplicate service tickets and payment for maintaining out-of-service cameras. Site returned 503 to automated fetches; figures corroborated by Infobae (2 Dec 2024) and Blu Radio.
↗ Infobae — cameras out of service by locality (11 May 2026) archived copyMost recent dated figure: 1,367 of 5,824 cameras (23.47%) non-operational, from a right-of-petition response released by councillor Diana Diago. Kennedy 154, Ciudad Bolívar 151, Los Mártires 35.9% of its fleet.
↗ Personería de Bogotá on TransMilenio feeds (Apr 2022)Published 15 April 2022Oversight finding: none of the 28,017 bus cameras connected to the command centre, only 25 of 140 trunk stations connected, no cameras at any of the 9 portals, and 186 health-unit cameras not connected to the C4.
↗ Alcaldía de Bogotá — facial recognition claim (22 Aug 2024)City page claiming "se logra obtener un reconocimiento facial de las personas que se encuentren cometiendo hechos delictivos" across 5,000 cameras. Kept as a record of the claim; the entry does not repeat it, as later city material describes LPR and BriefCam but not facial recognition.
↗ Fundación Karisma — Cámaras indiscretas FAQPublished 3 February 2018 · updated 16 June 2022The other direction: documents 24 facial-recognition cameras installed in TransMilenio stations (a TransMilenio deployment, not the C4's) and states of their current fate "No sabemos… no se ha dicho nada en concreto". Published 2018, updated June 2022.

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  1. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá · city governmentAlcaldía de Bogotá — new C4 opens (10 May 2016)
  2. Fundación Karisma · ngoFundación Karisma — Cámaras indiscretas FAQ · updated 16 June 2022
  3. Colombia.com · pressPersonería de Bogotá on TransMilenio feeds (Apr 2022)
  4. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá · city governmentAlcaldía de Bogotá — facial recognition claim (22 Aug 2024)
  5. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá · city governmentAlcaldía de Bogotá — 13,000 cameras (5 Mar 2026)
  6. Alcaldía Mayor de Bogotá · city governmentAlcaldía de Bogotá — private camera registration (8 Mar 2026)
  7. Infobae · pressInfobae — cameras out of service by locality (11 May 2026)

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1,367 of 5,824 district-owned cameras (23.5%) were out of service in May 2026, per a right-of-petition response released by councillor Diana Diago
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What the mapping says
Infobae published the locality-level breakdown of out-of-service cameras, worst in Los Mártires (35.9%) and Santa Fe (32.9%).
Caveat
The entry notes no published evaluation — academic, audit or police — says whether any of it moves crime, clearance rates or response times.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Infobae — cameras out of service by locality (11 May 2026)
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad, Convivencia y Justicia (SDSCJ)
Actor types
city-government
Funding model
public
Funding description
Bogotá district budget (Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad, Convivencia y Justicia)
Cost
≈COP 108,000M across ten camera-maintenance contracts, 2021-2023 (Contraloría)
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10 source dossiers

Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad (operator) scj.gov.co · background

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Operator's C4 / Línea 123 programme page. Automated fetches returned 503; page existence and content confirmed via search results.

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Alcaldía de Bogotá — 13,000 cameras (5 Mar 2026) bogota.gov.co · background

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2026-03-05
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Dated operator figure: "cerca de 13.000 cámaras integradas de entidades públicas y privadas"; 310 multisensor cameras in 2025 and 291 planned for 2026; 1,676 feeds integrated over two years; 1,200 traffic cameras connected; names BriefCam ("analizar en minutos horas de grabación") and an LPR system; ten control rooms in police stations. No public/private split given.

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Alcaldía de Bogotá — private camera registration (8 Mar 2026) bogota.gov.co · background

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How private feeds join: owners register at argos.scj.gov.co; cameras must be colour, 2MP minimum and pointed at public space. Repeats the ~13,000 total and the ten control rooms.

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Alcaldía de Bogotá — new C4 opens (10 May 2016) bogota.gov.co · background

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Dates the current C4: first stage inaugurated at Calle 20 No 68 A 06, with the emergency line already running there for three weeks. Confirms Línea 123 as one of seven agencies inside the centre. City had 570 cameras then, only 300 working.

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Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad — 123 line turns 17 (May 2024) scj.gov.co · background

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Dates NUSE 123 to May 2007, when 50 operators replaced the separate 112 (police), 119 (fire), 125 (health) and 127 (traffic) numbers.

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Contraloría de Bogotá — maintenance findings (Dec 2024) contraloriabogota.gov.co · background

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District audit office: COP 5,379M in fiscal findings on 2021-2023 contracts covering 5,824 cameras, ~45% out of service; duplicate service tickets and payment for maintaining out-of-service cameras. Site returned 503 to automated fetches; figures corroborated by Infobae (2 Dec 2024) and Blu Radio.

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Infobae — cameras out of service by locality (11 May 2026) infobae.com · 1 linked claim

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Most recent dated figure: 1,367 of 5,824 cameras (23.47%) non-operational, from a right-of-petition response released by councillor Diana Diago. Kennedy 154, Ciudad Bolívar 151, Los Mártires 35.9% of its fleet.

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Personería de Bogotá on TransMilenio feeds (Apr 2022) colombia.com · background

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Name not classified · colombia.com
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2022-04-15
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2026-08-20
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Oversight finding: none of the 28,017 bus cameras connected to the command centre, only 25 of 140 trunk stations connected, no cameras at any of the 9 portals, and 186 health-unit cameras not connected to the C4.

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Alcaldía de Bogotá — facial recognition claim (22 Aug 2024) bogota.gov.co · background

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Name not classified · bogota.gov.co
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2024-08-22
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2026-07-26
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2026-08-20
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City page claiming "se logra obtener un reconocimiento facial de las personas que se encuentren cometiendo hechos delictivos" across 5,000 cameras. Kept as a record of the claim; the entry does not repeat it, as later city material describes LPR and BriefCam but not facial recognition.

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Fundación Karisma — Cámaras indiscretas FAQ blog.karisma.org.co · background

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Name not classified · blog.karisma.org.co
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2018-02-03
Updated
2022-06-16
Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-07-26
Dossier created
2026-08-20
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
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Locator
Open the recorded source note

The other direction: documents 24 facial-recognition cameras installed in TransMilenio stations (a TransMilenio deployment, not the C4's) and states of their current fate "No sabemos… no se ha dicho nada en concreto". Published 2018, updated June 2022.

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Background source; no baseline claim points here
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “C4 Command Centre & the 123 Emergency Line” — Bogotá, Colombia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/bogota-c4-command/ (last verified 2026-07-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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