The city government inaugurates the new headquarters of CIVITAS and triples the operational capacity of the intelligence center with an annual budget of R$ 180 million.

New situation room expands surveillance, accelerates investigations and strengthens technological innovation hub - Beth Santos/Rio City Hall

CIVITAS Rio – the Intelligence, Surveillance and Technology Center in Support of Public Security – inaugurated its new headquarters with a new situation room this Tuesday (January 13th). The structure marks an operational and technological leap for the Rio City Hall's center, tripling the city's surveillance capacity and the development of its own solutions aimed at supporting investigations. The number of agents and specialists analyzing the data jumped from 38 to 110. The new equipment occupies practically an entire floor of the Operations and Resilience Center (COR-Rio).

– What we are doing is a set of initiatives that seek to assist the state government, which is responsible for public safety. The municipality can help when it establishes public order policies, when it combats illegal construction, and with the Municipal Guard. We will move forward with the Municipal Force. And we can help with the implementation of CIVITAS. In a world where technology serves practically everything, it is unacceptable that we do not have the technology to help with public safety. This is a space to assist the Civil and Military Police and the Justice system. The great asset of this is to ensure that the process of investigating and prosecuting crimes can be resolved in Rio de Janeiro – stated Mayor Eduardo Paes.

The budget for the Intelligence Center has increased from R$16 million to R$180 million per year. This structural and resource expansion consolidates CIVITAS Rio as one of the most technologically advanced and modern municipal intelligence centers in the country and reinforces the municipality's strategic role in using data, technology, and advanced analysis to support police forces and the justice system. The physical expansion accompanies the growth of the teams, the strengthening of the technological infrastructure, and the advancement of solutions developed specifically for the realities of Rio de Janeiro.

– CIVITAS has been operating for a year and a half. It started as a pilot project and today represents an investment of R$ 180 million per year by the City Hall. For the past 15 years, COR has been the leading reference in Brazil for city monitoring. CIVITAS was created so that, in the next 15 years, it will be the leading reference in Brazil for city surveillance – said Deputy Mayor Eduardo Cavaliere.

Since the center's inception in June 2024, CIVITAS Rio has had approximately 30 operational agents for image analysis. As of this Tuesday, there are 92 people dedicated exclusively to the operation. A large part of the team is made up of reassigned municipal guards with in-depth knowledge of the territory, urban dynamics, and public safety of the city. In addition to these professionals are physicists, mathematicians, data scientists, analysts, developers, and programmers who work in the Technology and Data Laboratory, the core responsible for developing studies, technological solutions, and new functionalities for CIVITAS Rio, with data-driven operations. The laboratory has more than doubled its staff: from eight to 18. The team works on improving and creating new functionalities for the internal system, analytical models, studies of criminal patterns, and innovative solutions that directly support the police and the justice system.

With its new headquarters – which features a dedicated space for creating solutions, as well as state-of-the-art screens that allow for a complete visualization of the center's functionalities – strengthened teams, and the expansion of the Technology and Data Laboratory, CIVITAS Rio enters a new phase, increasing its capacity to support complex investigations, develop its own technological solutions, and strategically integrate data from across the city.

When it was created, CIVITAS Rio used the city's existing equipment: 5.300 cameras. Currently, CIVITAS Rio has more than 10,000 monitoring devices, including cameras, smart super-cameras, and radars. In the last year alone, 3,000 smart super-cameras were installed, aimed at urban surveillance and supporting investigations. By the end of 2026, the center should reach a total of 6,000 of its own super-cameras in operation, significantly expanding its capacity for scene analysis, criminal investigation searches, pattern identification, and real-time alert generation.

– CIVITAS is not just a surveillance center. Here we produce technology and cross-reference data to provide concrete support to security forces. Today, we are inaugurating two integrated environments. On one side, we have a situation room that operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In this room, all technological resources and tools are used to identify vehicles involved in crimes, track and monitor them in real time. On the other side, we have the technology laboratory, where our scientists are focused and dedicated to thinking about solutions for the city's public security challenges, always considering the specificities of each region – said the CEO of CIVITAS, Davi Carreiro.

CIVITAS Rio has supported more than 3.500 cases, including inquiries, investigations, and operations, always at the official request of security forces and the justice system. The support involves technical data analysis, reconstruction of movement histories, real-time monitoring of suspects, connections between seemingly distinct crimes, identification of suspicious license plates even with little or no information, verification of the presence of other individuals involved, dismantling of criminal gangs, identification of criminal patterns, and the production of strategic intelligence, contributing to the elucidation of crimes and the improvement of actions. All of this is auditable and without human interference in the generation of reports, which become qualified evidence.

CIVITAS Rio's work is structured around data. The Municipal Datalake is used in various ways by the center and gathers, in an organized and intelligent manner, the data produced daily by the Rio de Janeiro City Hall. In addition to this, CIVITAS Rio cross-references information from sources such as the 1746 hotline, the anonymous tip line, the "Where There's a Shootout" database, open social networks, among others, allowing for more qualified analyses and faster responses to the demands of the security forces.