KGYS, acronym for Kent Güvenlik Yönetim Sistemi" (literally: City Security Management System), is a modular monitoring and imaging system used in urban areas of Turkey for

law enforcement Law enforcement is the activity of some members of government who act in an organized manner to enforce the law by discovering, deterring, rehabilitating, or punishing people who violate the rules and norms governing that society. The term en ...

to ensure

public security Public security or public safety is the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety and security of the public from significant danger, injury, or property damage. It is often conducted by a state government to ensur ...

, to defend against

internal security Internal security is the act of keeping peace within the borders of a sovereign state or other Self-governance, self-governing territories, generally by upholding the national law and defending against internal security threats. Responsibility fo ...

threats and to perform control tasks more effectively. Significant results are obtained by processing the image and location data in accordance with the legislation, which are supported by results produced by the Turkish Police Information Network (PolNet). KGYS consists of: * Command and control center, *

Vehicle tracking system A vehicle tracking system combines the use of automatic vehicle location in individual vehicles with software that collects these fleet data for a comprehensive picture of vehicle locations. Modern vehicle tracking systems commonly use GPS or G ...

, * Mobile vehicle inquiry system, * Police station holding cell improvement and control system, * Regional imaging system, *

Automatic number plate recognition Automatic number-plate recognition (ANPR; see also #Other names, other names below) is a technology that uses optical character recognition on images to read vehicle registration plates to create vehicle location data. It can use existing close ...

system, * Mobile operations management and * Police computer network. The 2015-established traffic law enforcement system TEDES, which consists of

speed camera In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed (commonly referred to as ''v'') of an object is the magnitude of the change of its position over time or the magnitude of the change of its position per unit of time; it is thus a scalar quantit ...

red light camera A red light camera (short for red light running camera ) is a type of traffic enforcement camera that photographs a vehicle that has entered an intersection after the traffic signal controlling the intersection has turned red. By automatically pho ...

and automatic number plate recognition device, is an integral part of KGYS.

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