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🇵🇦 Panama City

Panama City Municipal Video Surveillance & Panic Button Network

Panama City's municipal video surveillance center has run 24/7 since around 2018, with 100+ cameras across public spaces. Paired 'Botón del Pánico' intercom-and-camera posts — 30 in Panama City, 20 in Colón — route citizen alarms to Panama's National Operations Center for a monitored response.

Live 📅 since 2018

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified

🏛️ GovernancePublic spaceSafety & security
Evidence🏛️ Official
Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: 15-minute city · ANPR (automatic number-plate recognition) · CBTC (communications-based train control)

Sources

↗ Municipio de Panamá (authority)Official updates dashboard detailing ongoing municipal management systems.
↗ Municipio de Panama (authority)Official page by the city or public authority behind the project.
↗ Panama America (press)News coverage of the project.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Panama City Municipal Video Surveillance & Panic Button Network” — Panama City, Panama. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/panama-city-smartcenter/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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