MARTINSVILLE, Va. – The Martinsville Police Department is discontinuing its use of a gunshot detection system due to performance issues, while Roanoke prepares to implement the same technology next year.
The system, nicknamed “Raven” by its parent company Flock, was installed in Martinsville at the beginning of this year through an $80,000 grant from Ceasefire Virginia. The network consisted of 140 sensors placed throughout the city. Martinsville was among more than 170 U.S. cities testing the technology.
“We’ve had a few incidents of shootings in the city where we know gunshots have happened inside the house and the sensors weren’t able to pick it up,” said Martinsville Police Chief Chad Rhoades…