CISP: Luanda's Camera Network and the National Public Security Centre
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Angola switched on more than 700 cameras in Luanda and an 8,000 m² control centre three weeks before its video-surveillance law took effect. The only figure it has published since is how many cameras there are.
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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 4 more in Luanda · 🛡️ Safety & security guide · 📡 Data & IoT projects
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.
📊 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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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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