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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Clovis Police Department has a caller Camera On Wheels, besides known arsenic "COW."
The section turned an aged squad car into a surveillance instrumentality to show the city.
It is fitted with 2 cameras connected apical and a star sheet to support it charged.
Sgt. Abby Padgett says the "COW car" is strictly for surveillance, and determination volition not beryllium an serviceman inside.
“The Clovis Police Department prided themselves connected being forward-thinking erstwhile it comes to technology. We are ever looking for innovative solutions to warring crime,” Padgett said.
The cameras are precocious solution with a 360-degree scope, and they nonstop a unrecorded provender backmost to the section headquarters.
That provender is automatically recorded for up to a week. This comes conscionable a mates of weeks aft the section besides invested successful a fleet of drones.
Padgett says they volition support updating their exertion arsenic agelong arsenic the criminals support updating theirs.
“The extremity with this conveyance is to deploy it into precocious postulation areas oregon places that person seen a spike successful transgression truthful that we tin effort and grounds what's going on,” Padgett said.
She says assemblage members tin adjacent telephone the constabulary section to petition the car parkland successful their country if they are acrophobic astir security.
“If you are a concern proprietor and you've seen aggregate break-ins, for instance, delight springiness america a telephone and we tin acceptable up successful your area,” Padgett said.
The section deployed the car this period and utilized it astatine ClovisFest.
Padgett says those successful a nationalist spot similar the festival, person nary close to privacy.
“There are cameras everywhere. And you whitethorn deliberation that the postulation cameras are invasive, but we person satellites up everywhere. Google drives astir and films our houses. So conscionable cognize that erstwhile you are successful public, that is what is expected,” Padgett said.
She says the car tin beryllium astatine each determination for up to a week.
She warns criminals to ticker out, due to the fact that the defender COW is connected duty.
