Equipment and Technology Upgrades

The Greenville Police Department is a medium size agency of 200 authorized sworn officers
for a population of about 89,233. We are and have been committed to
the use of Body Worn Cameras for the past fifteen years and are positioned now to
replace our current system. The proposed BWC and In-Car camera system will
improve video quality, video processing, video management, video-sharing across
the cloud, and improve system stability. The system chosen will connect easily with
the courts of North Carolina with their Ingestion Portal for Discovery and with other
law enforcement agencies across the United States on a system with multiple
redundancy in the Cloud, GPS tracking, video streaming during emergent situations
for incident command, interconnectivity with officer firearm and Tasers equipped to
trigger upon BWC activation, and Computer Aided Dispatch System integration.
Our current system provides only the most basic video processing, requiring manual
tagging of each video to officer calls in our Computer Aided Dispatch System. The
proposed system will perform automatic tagging of each video by incident, improve
auditing abilities, and provide new video/audio redaction tools and strong chain of
evidence reporting for any changes required for release of a video. Our current
system is plagued with camera failures due to attrition but the new system
eliminates this officer safety issue by keeping all cameras under warranty for
failures, spare cameras on hand, a regular replacement cycle for all cameras both
Body Worn and In-Car cameras with unlimited cloud storage. The proposed system
provides the infrastructure for the department’s future and meets the goal of
replacing all Body Worn and In Car cameras leveraging the resources of a cloud-
based system for at least the next five years.