There has been more than one occasion when a customer – individuals and businesses – have been able to provide law enforcement with surveillance footage to help solve a crime. Ted Johnson, a technical sales associate with Collins Communications in Gillette, agreed that security systems and surveillance cameras are definitely a part of the new world order when it comes to protecting one’s livelihood and possessions. “And I hate to say it, but canvas cameras definitely helped and social security systems are really the world we live in today.” “People don’t realize that even somebody just dumpster diving or something else is something to pay attention to because you never know who is committing a crime,” he said. He also gets on average about three calls a week from customers or law enforcement officers requesting video footage from a particular incident.Īnd though cameras are a great tool, Thayer said people should remain just as vigilant as ever when it comes to being aware of their surroundings and protecting their belongings. “We get calls for camera systems every day,” he said. His company also sells alarms, access control devices and fire systems, but cameras are his biggest seller. In the past two years, Thayer said his company had seen a boom in camera sales. “Then you’ve got thousands of eyes looking at the incident and solving it really quickly,” he said.
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Advancing technology has also allowed users to download videos and post them on social media for more people to see. Improvements in video quality with the move from analog to digital recording have greatly enhanced the ability of such devices to record details that may not have been visible with earlier recorders. “A lot of crimes actually nowadays are getting solved by security cameras,” Thayer said. Marc Thayer, a former Cheyenne cop and now owner of Corporate Protective Services in Cheyenne, has seen a significant increase in his business since going into business in 1999. “We get a lot of tips this way,” he said. It is also very valuble when police are trying to identify a suspect, Romero noted, because they can share an image the public on social media. Surveillance footage is a tremendous help in recording what may have happened when a business gets broken into. “Sometimes it (cameras) produces something, and sometimes it doesn’t,” he said, “and it doesn’t show you everything that happened but just a slice of the larger story.” Video cameras don’t always capture everything, Romero noted, but they can provide vital clues in a crime scene and help overcome human error and mistakes in memory or perception. “They’ve been an incredible help in solving crimes and identifying victims.”įor this reason, it’s become standard practice for law enforcement to look for cameras and seek surveillance footage whenever possible. “Before cameras you just took people at their word and there was never any way to back that up,” Riverton Police Captain Wes Romero said. Today, surveillance cameras are filling in those holes and helping law enforcement solve crimes much more efficiently and faster. There was a time when police had to rely solely on eyewitness testimony or a person’s accounting of events in a crime.
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Once the video made its way to social media, people stepped up and told the police where the car was parked and where the driver lived. The vehicle, the coloring, the mismatched wheels all made the car simple to identify as the one that came across a road, into a driveway and then a garage door. It was the video footage from a neighbor’s security cameras, the police department said, that made the difference in tracking the individual down.Ī couple eyewitnesses were able to provide vague but somewhat conflicting descriptions of both the car and driver. Within less than 36 hours, the 23-year-old female driver was issued citations for failing to report the accident and driving with a suspended driver’s license.
It took the Gillette Police Department less than a day to track down the hit-and-run driver who plowed into a Gillette woman’s house last Thursday. ***For All Things Wyoming, Sign-Up For Our Daily Newsletter***īy Jimmy Orr and Jennifer Kocher, Cowboy State Daily
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