Hikvision secures Greenwood Police crime lab

The solution you've provided integrates the Video Content Analysis tool (Vac) and fisheye chambers 6 MP DS-2CD6362-IV. An infrastructure to protect forensic evidence from external threats, as well as overseeing the department's procedures.

The Greenwood City Police Crime Lab (Colorado) needed a video surveillance solution to protect the different forensic evidence stored there as firearms, drugs or cash recovered from raids.

The crime lab needed to expand the scope of surveillance of the facilities, incorporate more sophisticated equipment to increase the use and intelligence of the CCTV system (Cctv) who already had. In addition, they wanted to incorporate cameras in the outdoor areas that lacked.

"We wanted to optimize the system we had, that was already obsolete. It only allowed us to make live recordings, did not detect movement and was only installed in limited areas, where the evidence is located. We wanted to move from this one-dimensional system to one that offered us greater coverage, visualizing both the exterior of the building, like the inside of our vehicle processing area and test room", joe Gutsgell says, commander of the Greenwood Village Police Investigations Unit.

The company Safe Systems was responsible for this improvement project for the video surveillance system and opted for video surveillance technology Hikvision to carry it out. In this way, video content analysis tool has been implemented (Vac) critical areas of the laboratory and six fisheye chambers have been installed and 6 MP DS-2CD6362-IV to expand coverage and provide detailed images of the areas to be covered.

Fisheye technology is designed to capture images from every corner of a given location and eliminate blind spots. High-resolution images up to 3,072×2,048 to 30 fps allow Greenwood city police to have a real-time overview. In addition, infrared provides visibility at a distance of up to 15 meters in low light conditions or even in total darkness.

One of the most noteworthy features of this fisheye camera is its panoramic view of 180 or 360 degrees, ideal when full coverage is needed. It also has dewarped views, that allows you to reorient the point of the rounded fisheye lens and makes the video look more realistic. Finally,, a smooth ePTZ function makes it easy to turn, tilt or zoom. The fisheye camera is a very useful and cost-effective solution for small indoor spaces, like this, because a team does the work which requires three or more standard fixed cameras.

“We leveraged the 360-degree fisheye to control three-door images simultaneously: the outside, an interior door to another part of the office and the test room”, explains Marcos Overland, Senior Safety and Life Security Consultant by Safe Systems.

In the room where the property confiscated by the police is stored (Weapons, illegal drugs and cash) the mini dome camera has been installed 1,3 MP de Hikvision DS-2CD2512F-IS-los. A second minidome camera is being used in the vehicle processing room, where the cars involved in investigations are located.

Two chambers of 3 Megapixel (DS-2CD2132-I-4MM) IK10 vandalism-proof and IP66-protected are located on the outside and are responsible for capturing images of people and vehicles entering and leaving the lab 24 hours of the day.

Its infrared offers coverage with a distance of up to 30 meters and are equipped to operate at temperatures well below zero to withstand the cold days of the winters winters surprisingly cold Colorado. WDR functionality prevents images from blurring or becoming dark areas in high sunlight or high contrast.

The new security infrastructure also includes 16 NVR Hikvision DS-9616NI-ST, a computer that offers RAID functionality and support, along with eight SATA interfaces and up to 48 TB of storage. Teams that are responsible for providing remote vision.

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