Tourists Can Feel More Safe In This Popular Algarve Town Thanks To 65 New Surveillance Cameras

The cameras will be operated by Portuguese National Republican Guard

Tourists to the Algarve beach town of Albuferia can now feel more safe from crime thanks to a system of 65 public surveillance cameras recently strategic deployed around town.

“This is a system that will monitor areas with the highest traffic flow and concentration of people, namely the so-called bar street, in order to dissuade and combat crime,” said Albufeira Mayor José Carlos Rolo.

This comes despite the call from the mayor that the town is actually very safe for tourists, despite recently released crime numbers that showed crime increasing in the town per capita of residents.

Mayor José Carlos Rolo claims the numbers don’t account for the normal influx of tourists which increase the population numbers and the incidents of crime.

“Albufeira, being one of the largest tourist municipalities in the country, has around 500,000 people during the summer and these people do not appear in the statistics”, he stressed to the Jornal do Algarve.