Richmond County sees success with new security cameras

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – We’re following up with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Workplace about their new safety cameras.

They’re known as Flock cameras, which use synthetic intelligence to establish license plates.

Right here’s how they’re preserving our communities safer.

RCSO says their new “eyes within the sky” are already catching criminals down beneath.

In simply two weeks, the cameras have been capable of return six stolen automobiles to their rightful homeowners. They’ve additionally led to the arrests of 4 folks, and expenses for 2 juveniles.

Richmond County isn’t the one company seeing outcomes.

You see a digital camera, however Chief Deputy Pat Clayton sees a undertaking years within the making.

“We’ve been making an attempt to develop a digital camera program for the final 9 years,” he mentioned.

He’s seen what distinction cameras could make to stop thefts from faculties.

“We went down from $750,000 in losses right down to lower than $60,000 losses in a single 12 months,” he mentioned.

The identical ideas working in lecture rooms are actually hitting the streets. The cameras are a bit completely different than different safety cameras.

“We’re capable of enter the data into the cameras, into the database within the cameras, and it principally may help us hunt down folks,” mentioned Clayton.

Outcomes are simple to seek out nationwide.

In Mentor, Ohio, the cameras situated 21 stolen automobiles, led to 60 arrests, and helped discover 4 endangered folks in six months. In Atlanta, Flock cameras caught a person who allegedly tried to abduct a younger lady.

As for the folks caught behind the wheel of a stolen automobile right here in Augusta, most have rap sheets starting from shoplifting to even little one molestation.

“Anytime that somebody steals a automobile, particularly once they’re doing it for nefarious functions, it may be for nearly any sort of crime,” he mentioned.

They hope these cameras will cease criminals earlier than they’re capable of commit much more crimes. The sheriff’s workplace says they’ve plans to put in about 50 extra cameras.

They consider these cameras will assist in the investigation of extra crimes than simply stolen automobiles.

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