Contribution of Smart Intelligent Video surveillance solutions for public safety in Kigali City: Case study of Rwanda National Police

Abstract

Public safety in Rwanda has been negatively affected by a number of accidents and incidents that took place without the recognition of Rwanda National Police. Thus, this thesis intends to study the contribution of smart intelligence video surveillance solutions to the public safety in Kigali city. The specific objectives of this study include to find out the effect of video analytics features on public safety in City of Kigali with a case of Rwanda National Police, to determine the role of facial recognition system on public safety in City of Kigali with a case of Rwanda National Police and to determine the relationship between vehicle identification and tracking and public safety in City of Kigali with a reference case of Rwanda National Police. The researcher used descriptive research design with a mixed approach of both qualitative and quantitative data to collect the information from 86 respondents. The researcher used 86 respondents who are the total of number of Rwanda National Police employees who are deployed in video surveillance that implies that the researcher selected the whole number of target population as respondents through census as a sampling method. The results have proved that there is a positive significant relationship between smart intelligence video surveillance and public safety because there is also a positive relationship between video analytic feature and reduction of response time (p=.877 and sig=.000), between VIT and protection of people and properties (p=.557 and sig=.000) between reduction of accident and Reduction of response time (p=.815 and sig=.000) because all calculated p- values are less than 0.01 level of significance. Basing on the findings of the study, the researcher would like to recommend to the Rwanda National Police and other security organs to use the information provided by smart intelligence video surveillance to ensure public safety in terms of reducing accidents, reduction of response time and protection of people and properties in City of Kigali. Basing on the research findings, the researcher would like also to recommend to the camera monitors in Rwanda National Police to be so vigilant during their duties and work time so that all the information disseminated by the CCTV cameras from onsite should be well analysed and be transferred to the related department for further scrutiny and analysis to ensues safety of the public through accidents reduction, response time reduction and protection of people and properties in the City of Kigali.