London will finance the installation of cameras on the coast of Pas-de-Calais
The project, baptized “Terminus” concerns “all the municipalities of the coast” of which, “at this stage, more than twenty wished to be part of this approach”, explained the prefecture of Pas-de-Calais, confirming information from the Voice of the North.
The funding, she said, “results from the Treaty of Sandhurst”, concluded in 2018 between France and the United Kingdom to strengthen their cooperation against migratory trafficking. The prefecture indicated that it could not immediately “provide an estimate of the amount” that the project represents.
Funds from April
“At the beginning of March, the specific projects will be applied to the communities in order to enable them to mobilize British funds by March 31 at the latest,” she adds. A prefectural decree specifies “the modalities of access to the images and the return of these to the police and gendarmerie services”. The British could not access it.
In Wissant, “14 cameras must be installed”, some used for reading number plates, at “all entrance intersections”, explains Mayor Laurence Prouvot. More generally, the authorities have identified “strategic points, such as departmental intersections and access points to the sea”, generally devoid of video surveillance.