Chattanooga Police double number of safety cameras

CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – The Chattanooga Police Department adds 14 new public safety cameras to their intelligence network.

This gives them a total of 29 cameras around the city.

A lot went into the decision on where to put each of the new cameras.

Police talked to the community, consulted officers on the street, and crunched three years of crime stats.

They are targeting places with the most and the worst crimes.

They are also moving five of the cameras they put up last year.

The locations are not secret.

And they don’t try to disguise them.

They are in a two foot tall white metal box marked with CPD badge and a blue flashing light on top.  the boxes are mounted on EPB poles.

And CPD is telling us where they are.

They only keep the video for 30 days unless it is part of an investigation.

The video from the cameras goes into the Real Time Intelligence Center.

In the first six months, they used video in 30 cases.

Five were homicides and 13 were shootings.

They other cases involved auto theft, burglary, carjacking, robbery, and shots fired incidents.

Video from Chattanooga Police of a camera being installed.