Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico says planning is under way for a camera surveillance system for high crime areas in Harrisburg.
Some city officials have expressed frustration in the delay. But in Carlisle, where a system has been in place for nearly a year, the Chief of Police says it's a complex and time-consuming process to get the cameras up and running.
Carlisle has 16 cameras in operation. They're concentrated in a five-square-block area in the center of town. It is believed they can be worth their weight in gold in fighting crime.
Carlisle Police Chief Steve Margeson says the borough system is working fine, despite occasionally needing a technical tweak. But the planning and development takes a while. It may have taken Carlisle up to eight months after the funding was secured.
In Carlisle, the cameras run day and night producing high quality video surveillance. They can swivel left and right and up and down. They are so precise they can display the wording on signs a good distance a way.
Margeson says the cameras have helped solve an arson, identified a suspect in an early morning pellet gun shooting, decided which driver was at fault in a vehicle crash and caught a neighborhood road rage driver.
The chief said his team would offer technical assistance to Harrisburg or any other interested municipality. A $250,000 system is a major undertaking and to do it right is to do it slow.
Some city officials have expressed frustration in the delay. But in Carlisle, where a system has been in place for nearly a year, the Chief of Police says it's a complex and time-consuming process to get the cameras up and running.
Carlisle has 16 cameras in operation. They're concentrated in a five-square-block area in the center of town. It is believed they can be worth their weight in gold in fighting crime.
Carlisle Police Chief Steve Margeson says the borough system is working fine, despite occasionally needing a technical tweak. But the planning and development takes a while. It may have taken Carlisle up to eight months after the funding was secured.
In Carlisle, the cameras run day and night producing high quality video surveillance. They can swivel left and right and up and down. They are so precise they can display the wording on signs a good distance a way.
Margeson says the cameras have helped solve an arson, identified a suspect in an early morning pellet gun shooting, decided which driver was at fault in a vehicle crash and caught a neighborhood road rage driver.
The chief said his team would offer technical assistance to Harrisburg or any other interested municipality. A $250,000 system is a major undertaking and to do it right is to do it slow.