Shreveport’s Real Time Crime Center Keeps Expanding

The Real Time Crime Center (RTCC) has become the centerpiece of Shreveport’s crime-fighting efforts. That was part of the message delivered last week during the assessment of crime in Shreveport and Caddo Parish delivered by Police Chief Wayne Smith and District Attorney James Stewart.
Ever since going online in 2021, The RTCC has continued to expand. Its reach is now approaching nearly 1,300 feeds from city and privately-owned surveillance cameras, all coming to a central location and monitored 24-7 on the 2^nd floor of Government Plaza in the city’s IT department and is run on a cloud-based software system called Fusus.
Shreveport Police Public Information Officer Chris Bordelon says when a call is generated from a location, especially if there’s an active crime scene, real time monitors are able to access the nearest camera of the RTCC to see what’s happening. And Bordelon says with reports of previous crimes investigators can go back and look at the recorded footage at a given location. He explains the system has already played a role in criminal cases. “We do have a number of cases in which we’ve been able to recover video footage of suspects or the actual crime itself, in which we’ve used the Real Time Crime Center. So going forward, I mean, it’s going to continue to be used more and more because we continue to add more and more channels or cameras to it.” Bordelon says when the real Time Crime Center reaches 1,500 camera feeds, they will have to upgrade the system to make more room.