Chicago police officers may soon be able to
access the city’s approximately 35,000 surveillance
cameras through phones provided by the city.
Jonathan Lewin of the Chicago Police
Department’s Bureau of Technological Services
says the officers will be testing technology that
also will allow them to control the cameras’
zooming and panning capabilities. Officers on
the city’s West Side will begin tests next month.
Lewin says accessing the cameras is currently not
an option for officers who rely on standard laptop
computers mounted to squad car dashboards.
Those laptops will be removed and replaced with
a phone dock that will serve as a charger and
sync information from the phone with a dash-
mounted screen that’s attached to a keypad.
Lewin says the phones will be capable of
everything the old laptop computers did, such
as displaying dispatch assignments and allowing
officers to run name and vehicle checks.
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