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s, each connected to a
g the Milestone XPro-
rime analysts are able
as located throughout
a feeds from ShotSpot-
9-1-1 dispatch system
monitor potentially vi-
ation to assist officers
gate recordings, saving
er for us. It’s helped us take our
system to the next level,” said
Sgt. John Michael O’Hare, Di-
rector, Hartford Real-Time Crime
Center. ShotSpotter acoustically detects gunshots, where the
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HawkEye Effect uses the exact
coordinates and drives all
positional cameras in the vicinity either to predefined
escape routes or right onto the location where the shoot-
ing occurred.
“We can do things with Brief-
Cam that we just couldn’t do
before. It allows us to take large
volumes of
video data
and exam-
ine it very
quickly and
share
that
information Overall, Milestone XProtect Corporate VMS alongside
Axis PTZ cameras and BriefCam video synopsis has
worked perfectly to create a safer, more responsive
city.
with our officers.”
Now, Hartford police can access
information that may have nev-
er been retrieved before, since it
would have required someone to
sit and watch hours of video, in
real time.
And, the implementation of Brief-
Cam with the Milestone VMS was
easy, with a built-in plugin allow-
ing users to access the Brief-
Cam module directly from
its own tab within the XPro-
tect Smart Client interface.
Milestone XProtect Corporate is flexible and allows the Hart-
ford Police Department to set up temporary, pop-up com-
mand centers for major events, such as Marathons and the
city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
At such public events, temporary operational centers are
built around utility poles with Axis cameras., installed prior
to the event and dismantled afterward. During the mara-
thon, for example, trucks with Axis Q3709 cameras are tem-
porarily installed on their sides that provide 360-degree,
high-resolution coverage.
Milestone Mobile client adds the ability for police officers
to view and capture video easily on their mobile devices, on
foot or in a patrol car.
They can quickly record evidence from a crime scene or an
event in-progress and transmit it back to the Crime Center,
as well as view any video from the central system to get fast
overview of a situation and make better decisions on the fly
for optimal action.
This minimizes the system
resource draw on the CPUs
and lets operators accomplish
many things from a single in-
terface, saving a great deal
of valuable time.
Cullen and his team also
integrated a system called
HawkEye Effect, which ties
(See how Milestone’s open architecture has enabled integrations with third-party analytics soft-
the Milestone VMS to the
ware from BriefCam, Hawkeye Effect and ShotSpotter that help the police department save time
city’s existing ShotSpotter. and maximize efficiency.)
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