All Law Enforcement departments, regardless of size, can benefit from deploying mobile video surveillance cameras to enhance their crime reduction and public safety measures. Find out more here.
How Does Video Surveillance Assist Law Enforcement?
Law Enforcement departments of any size can benefit from deploying Mobile Video Surveillance Cameras to enhance crime reduction and public safety measures.
Having supported various Law Enforcement across the United States with our fully-managed surveillance solutions, we’ve gained key insight into the benefits Video Surveillance can provide you with.
Whether it’s our Rapid Deployment Pole Cameras, LPR systems, or Mobile Surveillance Trailers.
Advanced security systems like ourselves are optimized for crime reduction and investigation applications, making them ideal for Law Enforcement departments looking to enhance their surveillance profile.
Below, we outline the positive impacts Video Surveillance Cameras can have and why WCCTV is the best choice to help your police department better serve and protect your community.
The Benefits of Video Surveillance Cameras
Utilizing Mobile Video Surveillance Cameras to supplement your Law Enforcement efforts helps to deliver several key benefits:
Crime Reduction
Depending on the application or location, your department may decide to deploy highly overt Surveillance Cameras rather than covert Surveillance Cameras.
Having previously detailed the benefits of overt Surveillance Cameras and the benefits of covert surveillance cameras, you’ll likely be aware of their differing approaches to crime.
By utilizing overt Surveillance Cameras, their design aims to create a strong security that helps stop crime before it happens. For many criminals, the simple knowledge of being recorded is enough to prevent them from partaking in any illegal activity on your site or property.
This is particularly effective with low-level crime such as vandalism and trespassing, although it also works to deter more serious crimes like theft and violence through their highly-visible appearance.
Additional Eyes in the Sky
Your Law Enforcement officers are highly skilled and experienced, however, it’s near enough impossible for them to have eyes on every situation presented to them.
By boosting your security with Video Surveillance Cameras, you can multiply your department’s effectiveness in tackling crime.
We all are aware of the limitations on what the human eye can detect, especially in low-light conditions when dealing with large crowds or in a fast-moving environment.
An advanced Video Surveillance Camera can monitor and record vast locations whilst maintaining high-quality video, even in darkness.
This provides you with additional eyes in the sky where Law Enforcement Officers may not initially spot or be present to identify the crime at hand.
We identified specifically the difficulty faced in capturing crime at night.
Increased Departmental Efficiency
High-quality surveillance technology can often be customized to your needs and certain key applications faced by Law Enforcement on a regular basis.
One example is the use of License Plate Recognition (or LPR) cameras.
These specialized surveillance units are designed to capture and log vehicle license plates. Unlike standard surveillance cameras that record a wide field of view or are set to tour predefined zones for activity, LPR cameras are deployed for the singular purpose of capturing license plates.
With our LPR units, they are connected to a nationally hosted database that can check this captured data against the information contained in stolen vehicle databases and watch lists.
In comparison to the work required from Law Enforcement officers, they’ll need to scan and record license plates before scouring databases for matches, all of which is incredibly time-consuming.
That’s why introducing LPR cameras can make all the difference in fighting crime
Because as you’ll most likely know, real-time, on-the-ground surveillance is the most efficient way to address these crimes regardless of your Law Enforcement department's size.
Documented Evidence
Recorded footage can be utilized to identify potential suspects, but more importantly support you with any legal processes that follow this.
Video Surveillance often monitors and records high-quality, crystal clear imagery that can be utilized in any prosecutions that may need to take place.
Our operators quickly scan, search, review, and share the footage with relevant investigators and authorities.
Essentially, they provide the ultimate eye-witness testimony and protect Law Enforcement officers against accusations of unlawful actions in the field.
Where Should Law Enforcement Install Surveillance Cameras?
The best feature of Mobile Video Surveillance Cameras is right there in the name; they are portable units that can be quickly installed and moved to new locations if your security requirements change.
Having supported various Law Enforcement departments with their surveillance, we have gained first-hand knowledge in the best applications for our Video Surveillance systems. These include:
Highways and Intersections
Our mobile surveillance cameras are ideal for monitoring and managing highways.
Cameras can be deployed at traffic signals, alongside busy roads, or at intersections.
The integrated cellular transmission technology integrated into all our Video Surveillance Cameras allows officers to view live and recorded video remotely at any time, from any device.
Our surveillance units can record traffic patterns for data gathering purposes, provide worker safety and equipment security at highway construction projects, or assist with preventing and investigating traffic violations.
WCCTV Use Case:
Hutchins Police Department previously deployed our Pole Cameras to monitor traffic levels and also protect local businesses and parking lots against theft and criminal damage.
These cameras provided them with complete flexibility to move them to new locations, with the Chief of Police - Hutchins Police Department stating: “By deploying the WCCTV Mini Dome, we were able to monitor key areas of the City and any incidents which occurred. This led to us being able to manage our Police teams successfully and to make key decisions quickly.”
Public Utilities
City-owned infrastructure installations can be a magnet for criminals, including terrorists, thieves, and vandals, but with such high reliance on these services, businesses cannot afford for crime to impact this.
By using our Mobile Video Surveillance systems, you can enhance Law Enforcement capabilities in protecting critical infrastructure.
These include water treatment plants, electrical substations, and other utility installations.
Additionally, they can also help protect government buildings which can also attract the attention of those who wish to harm people and property.
WCCTV Use Case:
Harlingen Water Works is responsible for providing clean water to approximately 27,000 people, and most of their systems were in unmanned, remote locations.
The aim of deploying our Mobile Video Surveillance Cameras were to provide these systems with complete site security which hasn’t been the case previously and has left the sites vulnerable to crime.
However, due to there being 6 sites, users needed to be able to check in on sites without physically being there.
Through the use of our Video Surveillance solution, they had remote access to all the live and recorded footage captured across all sites.
This allowed them to both check in on the security and/or any incidents that took place, but also review the water process and ensure this was running as needed also.
Parking Lots
By virtue of their location and design, parking lots can attract undesirable behaviour and promote criminal activity.
Being one of the most common locations where crime occurs, parking lots are prone to crime such as, personal property and vehicle theft, vandalism, and violent crime.
We’ve noticed that with our sister brand, LotGuard’s Surveillance Trailers have grown in popularity over the years due to increased crime rates within parking lots.
These Trailers are designed to mitigate, deter, and report criminal activity in parking lots in an efficient, effective manner.
WCCTV Use Case:
Lithia Motors previously deployed the LotGuard PRO Surveillance Trailer to help manage the risks presented to their parking lot, including vandalism and trespassing.
Standing up to 20-ft tall, these Trailers help to prevent parking lot crime and protect their valuable assets, all of which are displayed within their parking lot day-and-night.
Why Do Law Enforcement Work With WCCTV?
Over our 20-years of experience, we have a large and rapidly growing Law Enforcement client base, establishing ourselves as the market leader in Mobile Video Surveillance cameras. But, we’re guessing you’re still wondering what sets WCCTV apart from our competitors?
Experience
With over 20-years of knowledge and experience within Mobile Video Surveillance technology since the company's inception in 2001, we understand the best response to challenges faced by various industries, including Law Enforcement.
We have more units deployed worldwide than any other supplier and have worked with countless Government and Law Enforcement agencies.
This has allowed us to build a customer-focused portfolio of products and support services that ensure you always get the right results.
Client Base
We work with Law Enforcement departments across the US, from Niagara Falls right down the Rio Grande Valley and everywhere in between.
Product Range
No matter the size of your Law Enforcement department or your particular needs, we have a solution that can work for you.
To learn more about our full range of Law Enforcement Mobile Video Surveillance Cameras, schedule a free consultation with one of our security experts today!
