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of police agencies to adopt the smart capabilities that BodyWorn™ offers.
“As an Atlanta-area company ourselves, we’re honored to
provide the Lilburn andMarietta Police Departments with 21st
century law enforcement capabilities,” saidRobert McKeeman,
CEO of Utility. “The manually operated clip-on cameras offered
by other vendors distract officers– the officer may forget to turn
it on or the camera can fall off or get knocked off when an officer
runs or gets into an altercation. A perpetrator has a strong incentive to try to destroy a clip-on camera that has just recorded
them breaking the law. An officer wearing a body camera but
not actually recording usable video of an incident is worse than
having no body camera at all. Police accountability and transparency require the most secure and reliable video recording.
Only our BodyWorn™ camera provides this. Police officers
should focus on protecting and serving the public rather than
being videographers. Our goal is to help prevent situations from
turning into incidents, and for officers to go home safely at the
end of their shifts.”
Utility’s BodyWorn is the only police body camera system that provides policybased recording and automatic video redaction
The Lilburn Police Department has deployed 30 BodyWorn™
cameras and 30 Rocket™ vehicle routers. Along with policybased recording, each officer has real-time, two-way communications with Central Dispatch. This advanced feature, which
comes standard with all BodyWorn™ cameras, enables “Officer Down” emergency alerts to be automatically sent to Central
Dispatch with the officer’s exact location—even if an officer
becomes incapacitated. Central Dispatch can also send “Be
on the Lookout” (BOLO); Silver and Amber alerts with photos;
and text descriptions to one, several, or all officers on duty, or
all officers within a Geo-Fence zone. Video can also be live
streamed to Central Dispatch based upon priority and department policy.
“The Lilburn Police Department is very excited to deploy Utility’s BodyWorn™ cameras and Rocket™ vehicle routers,” said
Bruce Hedley, Chief of Police, Lilburn Police Department. “Utility’s technology will undoubtedly help simplify several of our
daily tasks, improve communication between our officers and
further enhance the safety of our community by offering innovative features such as the real-time alerts sent out to our force.”
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The Marietta Police Department has purchased 142 BodyWorn™ units and 70 in-vehicle cameras. In addition, the
Department has purchased 130 Rocket™ integrated vehicle
communication systems, turning each patrol car into a mobile
Wi-Fi hotspot. This enables the police department to take advantage of Utility’s state-of-the-art Rocket IoT™ system, which
automatically synchronizes video captured from In-Vehicle
and BodyWorn™ cameras. Video from all cameras is accessible on Utility’s AVaiLWeb™ video management platform, providing a single integrated storage, search, and view of all video
related to an incident. The City of Marietta also opted to purchase 25 in-vehicle cameras for the Marietta Fire Department.
The BodyWorn™ software operates on a 4G-LTE smart
phone embedded into the officer’s uniform. The smart phone
supports up to 4K resolution video capture, multiple microphones for high quality audio, Wi-Fi connectivity, GPS position reporting, 3 axis accelerometer for detecting rapid motion,
Bluetooth® wireless technology, and Near Field Communications. BodyWorn™ software includes a Rules Engine, which
allows departments to configure cameras to reliably adhere to
the department’s specific video recording policies.
BodyWorn™ includes Smart Redaction™ at no additional
cost. Smart Redaction™ automatically identifies and blurs
faces, body parts with identifiable tattoos, and other selected
objects in a video to protect citizen and police officer privacy.
This unique capability allows a police department to quickly
and reliably redact video to respond to media and FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests, and to prepare video for use
in Court. Extensive manual labor to redact videos is eliminated, which allows law enforcement agencies to protect citizen
and police officer privacy while ensuring accountability and
transparency at low cost.
BodyWorn™ is part of Utility’s Evidence EcoSystem. For more
information about Generation 2 BodyWorn™ video cameras
and the Evidence EcoSystem, visit http://www.BodyWorn.com.
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