The Boston Police Department has launched a new security program which utilizes the internet-connect security cameras at participating businesses and homes. The program description:
“Boston Police Department, District C-11 recently launched a Public Safety Consortium among Dorchester Business Owners with an Information Sharing App, with the goal of bringing Dorchester’s Business Community together with the Boston Police Department to strategically plan and coordinate responses to emergency situations. To further this initiative, District C-11 is launching a new initiative to better coordinate, adjudicate, mitigate, prevent and respond to incidents in the community: Cam-Share.
By partnering with our neighbors, private cameras in and around our community can potentially be used as “Force- Multipliers.” Enabling Evidence to be quickly located, analyzed, and distributed among various agencies working together within the Criminal Justice System, to identify, locate, apprehend and adjudicate criminals responsible for committing an unlawful act(s)…”
While this video sharing program is new in Dorchester, similar programs exist elsewhere in the country. A quick online search found programs operating in Canyon (Texas), Elmhurst (Illinois), Schaumburg (Illinois), Washington (DC), and Waterloo (Illinois).
For more information, download the Community Cam-Share information and registration form (Adobe PDF; 490 KB). Or, contact: Timothy Connolly, Captain, Boston Police District C-11, 40 Gibson Street Dorchester, MA 02122. Phone: 617-343-4330.