They reinforce security in the AILA with 458 new surveillance cameras

Some 458 surveillance cameras have been installed inside and outside the Las Américas Airport (AILA) by the company Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (Aerodom), to offer greater security and protection to airlines, passengers and users of the airport terminal.

For the next few days, the terminal will also have an aircraft approach radar system, so according to air experts, Las Américas will become the safest airport in Latin America, the Caribbean and other continents.

The cameras, managed through a modern and sophisticated operations center by qualified personnel, cover all areas inside and outside the terminal and their scope extends to more than a kilometer from the airport perimeter.

The explanations on the installation of the considerable number of surveillance cameras, the points located and the functions of each of them, were offered by the director of the Specialized Airport Security Corps (Cesac), Carlos Febrillet Rodríguez, and the security manager of Aerodom, Jhonny Vilorio.

They indicated that from the operations center, all areas and areas within the airport and outside the terminal are controlled, so any movement or suspicious substance can be quickly detected and the corresponding personnel sent to the point, according to El Nacional .

“Through this system, we monitor all movement inside and outside the airport, including from when a person arrives at the airport, goes to the airline through which they are going to travel and the placement of their luggage on the belts”‘, they said.

They explained that the halls of Customs, Immigration, Free Zone, stores, food businesses, movement of vehicles in the parking lots that operate in the airport, cargo area, gates and places around the Airport, are monitored by cameras. .

“But in addition, the system has a range of more than a kilometer outside the perimeter corresponding to the Las Américas Airport, including the maritime area around the terminal,” they said.

They said that with these cameras it is a thing of the past, the complaints they received from people about baggage violations.