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Camden County Police Expand Crime Prevention Efforts

Camden, New Jersey, police are expanding their community crime prevention efforts to include interactive use of their surveillance cameras.

The Camden County, N.J., police are adding to their already expansive, multi-million dollar high-tech surveillance net with a new program, relying on the city’s most abundant resource — its residents.

Orlando Cuevas, assistant chief of Camden County Police Metro Division told NJ.com, “Let’s face it — you can have all the police you want out there seven days a week, but you’re still not going to know all the crime out there in the neighborhood like a resident does,” he went on to say, “We see it as a kind of interactive blog with the police, where the residents can contact us, and we can reach out to them with alerts.”

Calling it a “virtual neighborhood watch,” the police two weeks ago launched a new website that allows residents to anonymously alert officers of crimes happening in real time. Dubbed “iCan” — Interactive Community Alert Network — the program supplies residents with online images from the department’s more than 120 CCTV cameras, and allows officers to directly reply to residents via an online chat feature.

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