CISP: Luanda's Camera Network and the National Public Security Centre

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The Centro Integrado de Segurança Pública opened on Avenida Ho Chi Minh in Luanda on 30 December 2019, after the foundation stone was laid in August 2017 and a trial run from June 2019. The 8,000 m² building holds surveillance rooms, dispatch desks, a rapid-response command post and laboratories, and takes emergency calls on 111 for police, traffic, fire and medical services; provincial centres are linked to it by fibre, satellite and microwave. More than 700 cameras were installed in Luanda at the launch. Angola's video-surveillance law, Lei n.º 1/20, took effect on 22 January 2020 — three weeks after the centre was inaugurated. A separate provincial police unit, the CESP in Kilamba Kiaxi, opened in May 2020 and is connected to the CISP by fibre to cross-check data. Since January 2023 the CISP's director has said that cameras belonging to some private institutions are also connected, without naming them or giving a number.

Live 📅 since 2019

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

Run byCentro Integrado de Segurança Pública (CISP), Ministério do Interior

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📊 Impact

Every published number is a deployment count from the Interior Ministry. More than 700 cameras in Luanda at the December 2019 launch; in the ministry's later tally, over 1,200 cameras across Luanda, Benguela and Huambo, of which 955 are in Luanda, some with lenses reaching three to four kilometres. No arrest rate, clearance rate, response time or crime figure attributable to the centre has been published, and no audit office, court or research body has examined it.

🎓 Lesson

A camera count is not a security outcome. Luanda's centre reports how much hardware it has and nothing about what the hardware did — and the law governing video surveillance in Angola arrived after the cameras did, not before.

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Sources

↗ Novo Jornal (independent press)Published 29 December 2019 for the inauguration the following Monday, 30 December. 'Mais de 700 câmaras já terão sido instaladas em Luanda'; foundation stone August 2017, trial operation from June 2019; roughly 8,000 m² with surveillance rooms, dispatch, rapid-response command and laboratories; emergency line 111; 16 provincial centres under construction.

↗ Menos Fios (technology press)Carries the later ministry tally: over 1,200 cameras across Luanda, Benguela and Huambo under CISP, with 955 in Luanda, some with 'lentes de alcance de três a quatro quilómetros'; names the legal basis, 'Lei n.º 1/20, de 22 de Janeiro (Lei da Videovigilância)'. This article reports no facial recognition or number-plate recognition capability and no outcome statistics.

↗ Menos Fios (technology press)8 May 2020. The CESP, a unit of the Luanda provincial police command at Capolo I, Kilamba Kiaxi: 'Está interligado com o Centro Integrado de Segurança Pública (CISP), por intermédio da rede de fibra óptica, a fim de cruzar os dados'; police intervention requested on 111.

↗ Rádio Nacional de Angola (state broadcaster)5 January 2023. CISP director Subcomissário Adulcínio Lutucuta: 'Algumas câmaras de videovigilância de Instituições Privadas, em Angola, já estão conectadas ao Centro Integrado de Segurança Pública (CISP)'. No institutions named, no count. State broadcaster — an operator voice, not independent press.

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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “CISP: Luanda's Camera Network and the National Public Security Centre” — Luanda, Angola. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/luanda-cisp-video-surveillance/ (last verified 2026-08-06). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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