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Confidential documents … reveal that Serbia is procuring equipment to expand China’s eLTE network system, increasing the capacity of the “Safe City” by another 3.500 cameras, despite domestic public opposition and criticism from the EU.

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[New] documents contain details of the purchase of components to expand the protected eLTE network, which is based on Chinese Huawei technology and connects video surveillance cameras, police terminals and command centers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP).

It is the first written clue about the development of the network on which the “Safe City” project relies, a program that was launched back in 2017, when the Ministry of Interior of Serbia and the Chinese company Huawei signed the “Strategic Partnership Agreement for the introduction of eLTE technologies and solutions for the Safe City in the field of public security”.

While the core of the Safe City project is the introduction of an intelligent video surveillance system, the eLTE network represents a platform for protected communication and data transfer within such a system.

The procurement of equipment, software and services for the expansion of the eLTE communication network was carried out in March 2024, marked as confidential.

Among the order items is a significant increase in the dispatch system using the eLTE network, including GIS software for resource access that expands the ability to view footage from cameras at specific locations.

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