So, it's pretty much like a citywide unit. But, they're also supporting water and sewer, they're supporting property standards, as far as tire dumping and things like that. Or their primary clientele, I like to call everybody who works with us in IT. So, there's a lot of things that a centralized wing of analysts looking at all this information coming in, they do more than just public safety, although that's their primary customer. Not only, though, are we utilizing our real-time crime center for public safety purposes and surveilling public spaces, but we are also watching for chemical dumping in sewer manholes, and building centers around detecting that movement of that manhole, and triggering a camera to twist and turn towards that location or trigger an alert. Not only are we taking in requests to pull video footage for our officers, but we're also actively monitoring hot spot areas, and then actually making 911 calls in to our dispatch in real-time. So, all information coming into the real-time crime center is looked at by analysts, camera feeds are monitored, evidence collected and handed to detectives and, patrol, but the real-time aspect of a real-time crime center is fairly important. Yeah, so, typically, a real-time crime center is a sort of a fusion center of information. Yeah, so, to really get started today, can you kind of explain in a little detail to the novice, what a real-time crime center is, and more importantly, the role that the Shreveport real-time crime center plays in your community specifically? We launched it inside of our IT department, as opposed to in our police departments. So that is a very different aspect of Shreveport's real-time crime center, and what we're doing here. I'm the Chief Technology Officer for the City of Shreveport, and looped- lumped into those duties are all the duties of a director of IT, and on top of that, externally facing initiatives, smart city initiatives, and of course, you know, public safety initiatives involving technology.
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So, Keith, first off, can you tell us a little about yourself, and your role with the City of Shreveport? Today I have the pleasure to speak with the Chief Technology Expert of the City of Shreveport, Keith Hanson, in the third edition of our new monthly podcast segment, ‘Real-Time Talk With Fusus.’
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What's going on everyone? This is Allen Perez, from Fusus.
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Channel Link: Podcast Interview Transcript