April 27, 2007
Davenport police take municipal surveillance to the next level
So chances are you have seen a camera mounted atop a traffic signal in your town. They're pretty widespread and a popular method of keeping speeders and runners of red lights in check, and an effective way of raising funds through tickets. It's also pretty likely that the police department in your hometown has surveillance cameras mounted on the dashboards of their cruisers - the cameras help protect both the officers and the people they pull over and arrest, and can also provide valuable evidence during prosecution. Davenport, Iowa police and city officials recently announced a plan to boost municipal surveillance cameras to add additional street cameras and also network in a system of portable cameras for police car
These fixed, portable and red light surveillance cameras will all be networked together, and law enforcement officials will have access to both streaming and recorded video. This landmark networking step in municipal video surveillance is hoped to help police react to crimes as they occur and combat offenses more quickly than before. The IP cameras will run over a wireless network which blankets Davenport, and police will have on-the-fly access to the footage from their on-board computers, as well the ability to record streaming video.
Separately, these types of cameras are quite normal for cities and towns all across the country, but not until now has there been an effort connect traffic and street surveillance cameras to police cameras. Davenport police have been mum about the locations of the new cameras, but claim they will be in action soon.
Posted by Jennifer on April 27, 2007 4:53 PM | Comments (0)
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