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Title: Austin Police Department


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Austin Police Department Presentation
Criminal HOTSPOT Response Strategy
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  • Presentation Overview
  • Identified City of Austin Criminal HOTSPOTS
  • Citywide crime HOTSPOTS
  • Neighborhood crime HOTSPOTS
  • Reducing Crime HOTSPOTS With The Aid Of Cameras
  • Intended uses of cameras in HOTSPOTS
  • Equipment technical capabilities
  • Camera positions and locations
  • Personnel, operations, procedures and policy
  • Benefits of Cameras Community support

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Fighting crime in idetified HOTSPOTS is the
optimun use of cameras in Austin
RUNDBERG
12th CHICON
6th STREET
E. RIVERSIDE BURTON
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Equipment Technical Capabilities
Police Headquarters
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Equipment Technical Capabilities cont.
  • PTZ (Pan, Tilt and Zoom capabilities)
  • Monitoring stations
  • Variety of alerts based on situations can be sent
    to monitoring station
  • Individual enters/exits surveillance area
  • More than 20 individuals in surveillance area
  • Bag left unattended in surveillance area
  • More
  • Secure Technology
  • Data storage loop
  • Network based technology
  • Technology allows easy relocation of cameras to
    other HOTSPOT areas
  • Durable

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Camera Placements
The optimum placement of cameras in Crime
HOTSPOTS are currently under evaluation by Area
Commanders in cooperation with the community
stakeholders.
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Personnel, Operations, Proceedures, Policies
Operations, policies and procedures are currently
in the developmental stages under consideration
  • Retention schedule of recorded criminal activity.
  • Monitoring station hours of operation
  • Personnel (Retired Officers, Light Duty Officer,
    Specially Trained Civilians)
  • Procedures for responding to criminal activity
  • Ongoing evaluation of program, policy and
    procedures
  • Signage declaring a camera monitored zone

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Community Support
Downtown Austin Alliance 6th Street Austin
(formerly Pecan Street Owners Association) Austin
Hotel and Lodging Association Austin Convention
and Visitors Bureau Front Steps (ARCH managing
organization) Salvation Army Downtown Austin
Neighborhood Association The Downtown
Commission Building Owners and Managers
Association of Austin (BOMA Austin) St. David's
Episcopal Church The City of Austin Office of the
Police Monitor
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Benefits from the Use of Video Cameras in Public
Places
  • Quick response to medical emergencies
  • Deterrent to crime based on the ability to
    respond quickly to crimes in progress, the
    visibility of cameras and knowledge they exist in
    the area
  • Enhanced citizen safety and citizens feel safer
  • Real Time - Network based system allows police
    the ability to monitor activity from a variety of
    remote locations
  • Alerts the monitor center of potential activities
    or precursors of a criminal activities
  • Cost effective
  • Video evidence of committed criminal act

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