Video: Watch criminals strike, from the Dallas Police’s point of view

by Sarah Blaskovich

The video shows several crimes on police surveillance cameras and connects the dots between when a crime is committed and how police can nab criminals.

Images from surveillance cameras can be transmitted to iPhones or iPads, held by police officers on the street. Here's Jeff Gibson, president of Lextech Labs, explaining.

DALLAS — We decided to wait on posting this video until we had a little more information from the YouTube poster himself, Steven Titch. The video takes a look into the Dallas Police Department's video surveillance operations center, toured by Titch on October 11 during American Society for Industrial Security international seminar. (For accuracy's sake, the interview with Ksenia Coffman was taped October 12, Titch says.)

Titch is a Houston resident whose business is sharing information about the latest in surveillance. He tells me via email, "I posted the video because it provided difficult-to-get comments from police officers who could speak to their experience with the technology, as well as footage from the operations center itself. For my audience, the video provides an example of an up-to-date implementation of urban video surveillance built incrementally with fairly economical technology (wireless), a topic on which many are seeking more information."

In other words, people outside of the Dallas area are paying attention to Dallas Police's surveillance technology, which is apparently impressive.

Inside Dallas Police Department’s video surveillance operations center

Here's an inside look at the police department's video surveillance operations center at Dallas City Hall, part of the program at the 2010 ASIS International Seminar and Exhibits. Video posted by titchs531 on YouTube.