The Cheyenne Police Department is preventing crime with the use of technology, through mobile observation platforms.
“Allows us to view those cameras from the office or the computer, or even your phone, so that we can see what’s going on at the location,” said Sgt. Eric Norris with the Crime Prevention Team.
Each mobile observation platform has 5-6 cameras that record on site, making it easier for the crime prevention team to have eyes on the designated area.
They move locations based on where its currently needed based off crime data.
“We’ve had some issues with people being unruly at the transit sites, and some complaints from some of the drivers and they were feeling unsafe so one of the ways we tried to help them out was by setting that up so that we have a bird’s eye view,” said Sgt. Eric Norris.
Sgt Norris said that in general just the presence of the platform deters crime, and that since its been setup at the transit station there haven’t been any reported issues.
The second is currently at Murdoch’s to help limit shoplifting crime.
“With having them out there it deters the criminal activity as a whole from happening in that area, and again makes it a safer location,” said Sgt. Norris.
While this technology is not new to the department as they’ve been using it since 2018, but they did recently receive their second mobile observation platform through the Project Safe Neighborhood grant.
