How Mobile Video Supports Law Enforcement

Now, more than ever, Law Enforcement is being challenged to provide greater vigilance, expertise, and responsiveness across greater, more dispersed areas.

Video technology is already proving it can offer not just more, but better, information to meet the challenges.

Video data is a particularly rich source of information. It can relate intelligence far quicker than words. It can yield details and insight upon subsequent viewing, and a record that retains its accuracy over time.

Video information, even with limitations, is readily comprehensible for judges and juries. Video records provide their own scale and reference points. It is far more difficult to mislead or lose a viewer as it might be in a written record.

MOBILE VIDEO broadens the monitoring horizons of police and security guards. It can acquire more video data within an area of interest. Observation is no longer limited to the initial field of vision, nor to the initial team of officers. In other words, it enables people to see more --- both at the moment, and later.

Mobile Video anticipates the need for more specialist-members of police departments to support members at-the-scene.

Traffic officers can share video information at the moment with headquarters.

Investigative teams can transmit video immediately from the site of arrests, investigations, or warrant-service. Other squad cars can view the situation even as they are converging on the scene. Divisional chiefs at headquarters can share the same perspective as their front-line officers.

Forensic specialists can witness incidents or objects without spending hours traveling to a crime scene. Crime lab personnel can direct on-site personnel to capture video records while minimizing contamination of the scene.

More officers can view the interior of hazardous settings. Fewer officers need to be exposed to the toxic effects of drug manufacturers’ labs.

Prosecuting attorneys and judges can see, and record, events and localities, and make better informed decisions for issuing charges or warrants.