RPD looking for feedback on camera-sharing program

The Raleigh Police Department is looking for feedback on a video camera-sharing program meant to keep the public safe.

RPD is launching ConnectRaleigh, a video camera-sharing public safety program.

Participation in the program is voluntary, according to police, adding it’s a “proactive step to increase real-time information for data-guided emergency responses.”

Police are asking residents who own cameras on their property to register and, upon request, provide access to any video. They will use the registry to build an interactive map of security cameras in Raleigh that will:

• Be accessible only to the RPD.
• Increase the efficiency of direct video evidence collection.
• Enable communities to work together to create a safer Raleigh.
• Provide immediate camera owner contact information for investigators.

A similar system, called FUSUS, is already in place in Rocky Mount and Fayetteville. Officers in both cities use the tool to instantly pull up security camera footage across the city where residents and business owners agreed to connect to the system.

Officers in Rocky Mount were able to use the cameras to witness a robbery and arrest a suspect from the robbery in five hours.

Raleigh police will host the first of four information sessions about the platform on Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Abbotts Creek Park on Durant Road.

The other information sessions will take place between 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on the following days at the following locations:

• Tuesday, February 20
  • Brier Creek Park
  • 10810 Globe Rd.
• Tuesday, February 27
  • Jaycee Park
  • 2405 Wade Ave.
• Monday, March 11
  • John Chavis Memorial Park
  • 505 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd