In a report published in October 2020, the Court of Auditors notes decreasing prices, but ranging from simple to fivefold: from 5,500 euros to the installation per camera to 26,000 euros.For 26 additional cameras in 2018, Perpignan budgeted 681,705 euros excluding taxes (or 26,220 euros HT per camera).

These price differences are explained by the number of possible options.Do you want a dummy camera?Fixed or swivel on 360 degrees, or mobile?Capable of reading license plates?With a projector or the infrared to see at night?With anti-effraction, anti-dazzling, anti-fog, anti-insects, anti-vibrations ...?

It also depends on the configuration of the premises (cost of connection to the fiber network).In Marseille, the budget estimated in 2018 for the installation of 500 new cameras would, in fact, have been multiplied by three to reach € 46 million.

And also 5,863 euros per camera and per year

Strongly encouraged to be equipped (state, opposition elected officials, citizens, but also by mimicry or fear of a possible "movement effect" of delinquency from the neighbors equipped), the municipalities benefit from very substantial aids'State, even regions and departments (even if it escapes their skills ...).On average, municipalities generally only have to pay 20 % to 40 % of installation fees.

"It remains to ensure, at their expense, the maintenance costs, which remain substantial: up to 30 % of the initial invoice to pay each year," points out the researcher Eric Heilmann.For its park of 180 cameras (with twelve dedicated operators), the city of Argenteuil (Val d'Oise; 110,000 inhabitants) estimated, in 2018, this annual cost at 5,863 euros per camera.