CameraConnect DC: Register security cameras to help police solve crimes

Brian Farrell

April 29, 2024 at 6:21 PM·1 min read

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) encouraged people and businesess to help it solve crimes in the District through a program intended to create an additional network of cameras across the city.

At the heart of CameraConnect DC is a community camera registry that helps to build an interactive map of security cameras. The program’s website says the camearas will:

Be accessible only to the Metropolitan Police Department
Increase the efficiency of direct video evidence collection
Provide immediate contact information to investigators for camera owners
Enable communities to work together to create a safer Washington, D.C.

EXCLUSIVE: $66 million sent to crime victims in DC over past decade

A couple of other notes: camera registration is supposed to take less than a minute and registering a camera does not give MPD access to your live stream. Investigators only know that a camera is present at a location in order to request video easily if there is an incident in a neighborhood.

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