Richmond, VA – Richmond Police Department officials announced that the center will begin assisting law enforcement officers to respond quickly to crimes in progress or to those that recently occurred using new technology.
Earlier this year, the City of Richmond received a $750,000 grant from the Commonwealth of Virginia to launch a real time crime center.
The center will provide the Richmond Police Department with the ability to capitalize on a comprehensive and expanding range of technologies for efficient and effective policing.
The technologies available include security cameras, license plate readers cameras, shot detection, officers’ body-worn cameras, and more – all tools that will allow officers to respond to calls for service more efficiently, more deliberately, with improved operational intelligence, and with a proactive emphasis on officer, citizen, and community safety.
