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Sheriff’s Office Unveils New High Tech Real-Time Crime Center (With Photo Gallery)
March 15, 2024
Escambia County’s high tech Real-Time Crime Center is now up and running at the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office.
It’s officially called the Star Network, an over 5,700 square foot room that was previously served as a gym. Funded with over $1 million in Local Option Sales Tax funds, the room features a large video wall and working space for crime analysts.
With access to hundreds of cameras and license plate readers, the crime center provides real-time information to help fight crime in the county. With ShotSpotter technology covering a few square miles of the county and the City of Pensacola, the crime center knows about shots fired even before the first 911 call is made. And they can see where every deputy in the county is in real-time and rely on crime-fighting information to them.
The Pensacola Police Department will also utilize the center and provide staffing.
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16 Responses to “Sheriff’s Office Unveils New High Tech Real-Time Crime Center (With Photo Gallery)”
Imagine if we actually spent that money on programs designed to mitigate crime instead of just responding to it.
But will it help to let the public know what’s going on around us?
Presently if there are gun shots in our neighborhood and we call to find out what’s going on we have to get a report number, file for a copy of the report then “Pay” for the report when all we wanted was just to know what was going on.
It took 1 million dollars for some computer screens to be mounted on the wall and to convert a gym? Seems like a lot of money but hopefully there is more stuff that we can not see…..from what we can see seems like a HUGE waste of taxpayer dollars
What a waste of money!
To those criticizing it…… You seem to not understand whats going on.
The real time part is that they can see the crime AFTER its been committed. They are not out there movie “Minority Report” crimes.
Its just a way to get all the programs, recorded camera footage and other stuff that detectives normally use to secure a suspect.
I have watched a lot of that True Crime show and its NEAT to see how they do what they do
I’ve watched some of the series about the operation of “Real Time Crime” centers around the country, and this is an amazing and effective use of technology, and a great tool in Law Enforcement’s arsenal. In some areas, merchants and owners of private video surveillance systems allow the RTCC access to their video feeds to further enhance the system.
Way to go, Sheriff Simmons and Escambia county!
Big Brother is watching you….
This is good and all but we as a society don’t come down hard enough on criminals. Harsh and swift punishments for the PROVEN GUILTY.
I hope it helps the City/County’s ability to cut down on serious crime.
All that technology and those three crime analysts are still sitting at cubicles with desks that keep them sitting for 8 hours a day.
And considering Escambia County is more than twice as long as it is wide, seems like it would have made more sense to rotate the map monitors longways.
So now maybe they can catch their officers speeding when they aren’t going to calls. I have seen this several times.
It would be great if they would put one of these cameras on Hwy 99 just north of Molino Road. We have many speeders on this Hwy: trucks, cars, school buses (and you thought your kids were safe), garbage trucks, and log trucks.
No thank you.
Big brother is watching!
And they keep their activities secret with encrypted radios.
Nothing to see here, citizen; move along.
This is so cool. The Sheriff’s department got a video wall.
Hilarious… oooo you can extend a monitor display of a map on an external tv device… now you got yourself a command center!!!! LOL wait lets add some computer desks in front of these borderless TVs and throw a couple teenagers on said computers we are now the AVENGERS.
Now that’s where I’d like to work.
Impressive! I would think that this new proactive crime fighting and safety technology system might open up a few new job opportunities, as well.