Carrie Porter from The Wall Street Journal is reporting how Peoria Illinois deals with rowdy citizens and drug dealers: shame them with a armored vehicle loaded with cameras.
Police here call it the Armadillo. They say it has restored quiet to some formerly rowdy streets. Neighbors' calls for help have dropped sharply. About half of the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Public Surveillance Leading Practice'
Armored truck loaded with cameras runs bad neighbors out of town
August 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Leading Practice
Tags: Publically Owned CCTV
Norwich, UK: CCTV cameras stop vandalism in the school bathroom
August 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Public Surveillance Leading Practice
Surveillance cameras can do a pretty good job at stopping vandalism in certain contexts like public parks. However, the vandalism being performed in this case was against sinks and located in a childrens bathroom. According to Norwich Evening news, the cameras were a “last line of defence” move because of the thousands of pounds [...]
Manteca, CA: Removing crime from parks with surveillance cameras
July 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Leading Practice
Dennis Wyatt from the Manteca Bulletin reports:
There was a time when parents were reluctant to allow their kids to go to the Manteca skate park.
Set off a ways from Center Street along the Tidewater Bikeway, there were constant problems ranging from fighting and bullying to the flashing of weapons.
Virtually all of those problems disappeared when Manteca [...]
East Orange, NJ: gunshot detection secures an arrest
July 9th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Public Surveillance Leading Practice
According to the New Jersey Newsroom, the East Orange Police Department announced the arrest of an East Orange man in connection with Monday's fatal shooting of a 19-year-old boy.
Through the gunshot detection system, East Orange Police were able to swarm the shooting scene within minutes. Sanders was spotted only blocks away fleeing from the area. [...]
Tags: Gun Shot Detectors
Parking lot surveillance is key to successful crime reduction and convictions
July 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Private Surveillance Leading Practice, Public Surveillance Leading Practice
Another recent news article from the UK is providing further evidence that cameras focused on parking lots are reducing or stopping vehicle crime.
A SECURITY camera installed at a Crewkerne car park has had a dramatic impact on crime. Its arrival came following a number of incidents over the past year at the car park in [...]
Victoria police experiment with body mounted cameras
June 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Leading Practice
According to vicnews.com the Victoria PD will be the first North American PD to begin using body mounted surveillance equipment.
In the United Kingdom, police have tested out the equipment for two years.
Since implementing the new cameras, complaints decreased 14 per cent and guilty pleas rose 22 per cent, said Sgt. Grant Hamilton, spokesperson for Victoria [...]
Tags: Publically Owned CCTV
Are public parks the best place for CCTV technologies?
May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Public Surveillance Leading Practice
There is no evidence that cameras deter violent crime, however, there is some evidence surfacing that CCTV combined with video analytics, motion detection, and email alerts is actually stopping vandalism in public parks.
According to the Baltimore Sun, 5 parks will be fitted with this equipment based on the success of a pilot program from Reistertown park.
The [...]
