476 Journal of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies N. 5 / 2015 technology formed by nine cameras able to embrace a whole city in one go (an imminent development) 2,000 analysts will be required to cope with the feeds of just one drone instead of the nineteen analysts doing the job today.” If we address the dilemma of the potential of CCTV systems in urban areas we are able to consider them as passive instruments, (taking an opposing viewpoint to that of other systems whose purpose is the so-called targeted killing common to a certain type of drone), some of which are equipped with software integrated within the capture system, which are labelled smart cameras (that nearly always depend on external software not integrated into the camera itself ), rendering real-time analysis impossible. Video surveillance systems must thus be considered innocuous. In fact, they acquire a certain degree of added value when they are used as part of a network and with a specific purpose in mind. TOWARDS A TACTICAL CLASSIFICATION OF CCTV The objective proposed in this paper is to evaluate and diagnose the state of CCTV systems in the district Madrid Centre by addressing their geographical distribution and visual potential, as well as their tactical and strategic capacity as a response to terrorism and organised crime. Ultimately, our intention is to propose the operative and temporary use of a passive system, whereby the intended aim is always one of public interest. Moreover, a secondary objective is to generate an approach with a tactical, coordinated response that would enable the closure or opening of a specific area by means of the combination of CCTV systems, native traffic systems and the appropriate security forces. The selection of the area of analysis, the district Madrid Centre (5.24 km2; 0.87% of the area of the municipality, 150,000 registered inhabitants), is essentially due to two reasons, which are intertwined: a) The first pertains to the political-administrative nature of the city, whereby it serves as a nerve centre and constitutes an attractive target for those who wish to express a show of force against state power. Simultaneously, this current urban niche provides organised crime with an ecosystem where it finds those elements essential to its survival and the proliferation of its networks: a) a market at which to target a particular product; b) an environment in which they as individuals, as well as their activities, do not stand out; c) a high level of connectivity (internal and external); d) diversification of target groups allowing for the opening up of new markets. b) The second relates to a space-time correlation. Historically, the Centre district has fallen victim to an extremely high proportion of the acts of terrorism that have occurred over the last 150 years. Several that stand out have had a major http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee
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