Gainesville, Florida (WCJB) – Managers of the Sheriff’s Bureau of the County Alachua are working to obtain quotes to open what they call an “intelligence center on crime” next year.
Detection of a weapon indicated on a surveillance camera is only a new intelligence center on the County County crime is designed to help the police to identify more quickly.
“Whenever you try to better serve your community, you try to promote security. I think that today in time, the new technology is still essential, “said the Sheriff of the County of Alachua Chad Scott.
The Sheriff Scott says that this center would help deputies in high -level affairs, such as homicides or attacks. It will include everything, from updated technology for their cameras brought to the body and drones and helicopters to a computer -assisted distribution system.
“We want to protect the public life of the public. It is not a question of spying on the public, or you know, just by monitoring each of your movements, or by using it for an inappropriate reason, because of anyone who is the user. This is security,” said Chris Sims, captain of public information for the Bureau of the Sheriff of Alachua.
MEPs are looking for cost savings, such as meeting with the school board to see if they can have access to cameras, to which they would only have live access if there is an ongoing incident.
“Let’s say that the school or a business allows us interior access to their cameras, there are systems in place where they can put policies that say, hey listen, unless there is an incident in our establishment, you cannot live our cameras,” said Sims.
Officials of the Sheriff’s Office claim that the crucial part of the intelligence center would be to have ball detection systems in areas where there is statistically more armed violence.
“We are going in many of these areas and we are told that I have not seen anything, I cannot help you, yes, I see 10 shell envelopes there but I don’t know what happened,” said Sims. “Well, if we have video surveillance when the moment when the shooting is detected, it then cuts this video and allows us to experience what is happening in this area, then we can in fact support it a little and see exactly who fired.”
A major technology they already have, but can develop is the possibility of looking live on the dashboard cam of an assistant.
“You have these analysts who are able to live in these cameras, the deputy does not have to focus on the search for the sidewalk, the deputy does not have to focus on what cars pass them,” said Sims. “They sometimes try to get there at relatively high speeds.”
The installation will open up next year in the current emergency operations building, which is already equipped with screens and the Internet.
County officials bought the former National Guard armory on the 8th avenue for their new EOC and plan to have it ended by November.
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