Prime Minister Edi Rama emphasized that the Smart City initiative will profoundly transform public safety in the country by creating preventive mechanisms based on artificial intelligence and a unified network for immediate surveillance.
At the inauguration of the project’s operations center, he underlined that thanks to this technology, it will become almost impossible for perpetrators of criminal acts to hide evidence. According to him, the practice of vehicles used for criminal acts and then destroyed by fire belongs to the past.
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The system will generate instant alarms for any high-risk scenario, including the identification of wanted persons or the appearance of a cold weapon in shared spaces, significantly strengthening the police’s ability to intervene before situations escalate.
“The architecture of the project is designed so that the platform signals danger in real time, not just archiving data that is collected only after the event, as the minister explained. If someone pulls out a knife in any public space, not only inside schools but also on the street, the monitoring center receives an alert immediately. It could be a harmless situation, but also a dangerous one. When it comes to a wanted person trying to vanish without a trace, the system makes it almost impossible for authorities not to know his trajectory,” Rama stated.
He added that the era of cars involved in crimes ending up burned is over, because the platform tracks the vehicle long before it stops. Even though procedures have been optimized, they still carry difficulties, such as road stops accompanied by tensions between officers and drivers. This will no longer be necessary, as the center receives a signal the moment a vehicle with unpaid obligations enters traffic. Moreover, work is underway to connect police officers’ body cameras directly to this center.
Rama acknowledged that incidents will not disappear entirely, but stressed that preventative capabilities will increase exponentially, risks will diminish, and the rate of violation detection will experience an extraordinary rise. He also praised the increased commitment of school security guards, police, educational institution leaders, and parents’ suggestions, describing it as an exhausting effort to block extreme acts.
Referring to an incident that occurred outside school premises, he noted that no matter how great the effort, the result is not entirely satisfactory. Especially today, when children face a silent enemy: the most dangerous neighborhood bandit, which is nothing other than the algorithm hidden in teenagers’ pockets or bags. He warned that the new system will also focus on interaction with families.
