Police chief praises new dash cam

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In a news conference at Austin police headquarters Wednesday Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo twice thanked the mayor, the city council and Austin taxpayers for footing the bill on a new in-car video system.

Chief Acevedo said the new system is far better than what officers were previously using. “Video has improved significantly. Resolutions are better. Low light capabilities are much higher.

You can get video with almost no light at all,” said Keith Harris, Law Enforcement Technical Specialist for Supercircuits, a local manufacturer of surveillance camera systems. In February 2011 the first of APD’s new in-car cameras were installed in waves. APD is now using the Panasonic Arbitrator 360.

The new in-car camera systems have a much higher resolution as well as seven triggers which cause the camera to automatically record, five of which are:

1) A crash

2) Speeding at 90 mph (144.841kmh)

3) Turning on police lights

4) Turning on police sirens

5) Opening the door, can all trigger the system to start recording.

Howard said the video files are encrypted and digitally signed. In other words, manipulation or tampering with the video is nearly impossible.