The greenville police department is a medium size agency of 200 authorized sworn officers for a population of about 89,233

The City of Greenville Police Department was awarded a $1,400,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.753 Congressionally Recommended Awards) to replace the department's existing body-worn and in-car camera system. The proposed system will provide enhanced video quality, processing, management, and cloud-based storage capabilities. Key features include automatic video tagging, improved auditing, video redaction tools, and warranties/spare cameras to ensure officer safety. This system will integrate with the courts' video discovery portal, enabling seamless sharing of video evidence. The award period runs from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, supporting the department's goal of upgrading its law enforcement technology infrastructure for the next five years.

We are and have been committed to the use of body worn cameras for the past fifteen years and are positioned now to replace our current system. The proposed BWC and in-car camera system will improve video quality, video processing, video management, video-sharing across the cloud, and improve system stability. The system chosen will connect easily with the courts of north carolina with their ingestion portal for discovery and with other law enforcement agencies across the united states on a system with multiple redundancy in the cloud, GPS tracking, video streaming during emergent situations for incident command, interconnectivity with officer firearm and tasers equipped to trigger upon BWC activation, and computer aided dispatch system integration. Our current system provides only the most basic video processing, requiring manual tagging of each video to officer calls in our computer aided dispatch system. The proposed system will perform automatic tagging of each video by incident, improve auditing abilities, and provide new video/audio redaction tools and strong chain of evidence reporting for any changes required for release of a video. Our current system is plagued with camera failures due to attrition but the new system eliminates this officer safety issue by keeping all cameras under warranty for failures, spare cameras on hand, a regular replacement cycle for all cameras both body worn and in-car cameras with unlimited cloud storage. The proposed system provides the infrastructure for the departments future and meets the goal of replacing all body worn and in car cameras leveraging the resources of a cloud- based system for at least the next five years.