Local leaders on Thursday celebrated the opening of the Irvine Police Department’s new “Real-Time Crime Center.”
The agency now has access to more than 1,000 cameras in real time thanks to the RTCC, said Kyle Oldoerp, a spokesman for the Police Department.
That includes live video feed from intersections, private partnerships in the city, the Irvine Unified School District and Flock — the technology used to read license plates, Oldoerp said.
On duty at the RTCC are two specialists — a crime analyst and a drone operator, all working in partnership with the dispatch center to decrease response times.
“As officers are responding to calls, they’re providing license plate numbers, possible suspects,” Oldoerp said. “They’re looking at criminal histories. They’re looking at information that will tie criminals to crimes so that our officers can quickly locate them.”
In use since October 2022, the RTCC has already helped solve cases such as reconnecting an elderly person with their family, locating a suicidal teenager and this past July at the Irvine Spectrum–an alert to the center about a vehicle associated with previous thefts. Oldoerp said, without 911 getting a call, officers stopped the vehicle before it left the shopping center.