New crime-fighting technology deployed in Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Division deployed a number of new high-tech devices that may make it simpler for officers to reply to prison incident.

The division introduced will probably be testing gunshot detection programs from three totally different firms: Flock, ShotSpotter and J and M safety.

Officers will probably be skilled on that expertise within the coming months.

“This expertise serves as a lead, which suggests when an alert of a doable gunshot occurs, officers will get the placement and reply,” mentioned IMPD Commander Matthew Thomas.

Over the subsequent few weeks, these gadgets will probably be placed on mild poles and buildings. Firms that need to set up one among these cameras on their services can contact IMPD.

IMPD can be getting 6 cellular digicam trackers that don’t want a hardwire or landline to function. They are going to be utilized in what police name “leisure” zones.

“That’s only a time period we use for an space that has lots of leisure at evening and excessive density inhabitants,” mentioned Thomas.

The town is already utilizing 75 license plate readers by means of a number of distributors. One in all them was credited with serving to monitor down a car that was linked to a suspect within the theft of a Chipotle restaurant on E. 86th St. on Could ninth. Extra of these license plate readers are on the way in which.

“The current enhance was 25 by means of the Nationwide Policing Institute. These have been supplied as now price to IMPD, so these have been just lately put in all on the Southwest District,” mentioned Thomas.

The remainder of the expertise is being paid for with $9 million in American Rescue Act funds introduced final fall, and authorized by the city-county council.