(a) The technologies available allow law enforcement agencies and officers to respond to crime events more efficiently, more deliberately, with improved operational intelligence, and with a proactive emphasis on officer, citizen, and community safety. However, the increasingly vast amount of data, information, and intelligence can be difficult to manage. Agencies may struggle with filtering out what is immediately important versus what can be useful in delivering more critical and timely information to the appropriate constituencies: the officers or detectives on-scene, commanders in the field, and law enforcement executives.(a) The Commissioner of Police shall establish, within the Virgin Islands Police Department, a Real Time Crime Center with offices on St. Thomas and St. Croix. The mission of the Real Time Crime Center is to provide the Virgin Islands Police Department with the ability to capitalize on a wide and expanding range of technologies for efficient and effective policing.(b) The Real Time Crime Center must be equipped with the following:(1) Gunshot detection technology;(2) Surveillance camera network;(3) Automated license plate reading;(4) Fingerprint technology; and(5) Automated Criminal records including complaints, arrests, convictions, juvenile records, and facial recognition capability.(c) The Police Commissioner shall consult with the Attorney General for his approval if the records to be entered in the Real Time Crime Center are confidential.
(a) The Commissioner of Police shall establish, within the Virgin Islands Police Department, a Real Time Crime Center with offices on St. Thomas and St. Croix. The mission of the Real Time Crime Center is to provide the Virgin Islands Police Department with the ability to capitalize on a wide and expanding range of technologies for efficient and effective policing.
(b) The Real Time Crime Center must be equipped with the following:(1) Gunshot detection technology;(2) Surveillance camera network;(3) Automated license plate reading;(4) Fingerprint technology; and(5) Automated Criminal records including complaints, arrests, convictions, juvenile records, and facial recognition capability.
(1) Gunshot detection technology;
(2) Surveillance camera network;
(3) Automated license plate reading;
(4) Fingerprint technology; and
(5) Automated Criminal records including complaints, arrests, convictions, juvenile records, and facial recognition capability.
(c) The Police Commissioner shall consult with the Attorney General for his approval if the records to be entered in the Real Time Crime Center are confidential.