Take a look inside Warner Robins Police Department’s new surveillance center
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- Warner Robins police launched a Real-Time Crime Center to enhance surveillance.
- Flock cameras and traffic feeds already show reduced crashes, lower crime rates.
- Center enables quicker responses, data access and support during emergencies.
The Warner Robins Police Department unveiled on Tuesday a new surveillance center, allowing police officers to view a multitude of cameras throughout the city to address the growing community and respond to crime in real-time.
The surveillance center, called the Real-Time Crime Center, is a room located inside the Warner Robins Police Department building at 100 Watson Blvd. It includes multiple monitors and computers that show live feeds of traffic cameras and Flock cameras placed throughout the city. The surveillance center also will help the police department meet the needs of the growing community, which, as of 2024, was approximately 86,000 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Before the official unveiling Tuesday, Police Chief Wayne Fisher shared that the department has already seen results while installing the cameras for their crime center.
“Through deployment of the Flock cameras around certain traffic intersection points, we’re able to statistically show there was a reduction in traffic accidents at those intersections, such as ... Russell Parkway,” Fisher said.
“In community areas where we had an uptick of crime ... of violence, through the placement of the Flock cameras in the community, becoming aware of the cameras, it had the tendency to cool down situations ... while also still providing very much needed real-time data points to help in further investigations.”
What can Warner Robins police see, access?
Other than displaying live surveillance feeds, the Real-Time Crime Center can run license plates, monitor social media and identify crime trends. It can also assist other community officials and citizens during natural or man-made disasters, according to Fisher.
They have cameras placed in parks and outside of illegal dump sites, and they also can use the Georgia Department of Transportation’s cameras to “help enhance our patrol option, response to crimes and progress,” Capt. Eric Gossman, crime analyst for the Warner Robins Police Department, said.
“We look at faster response times (of) things that are evolving in real-time, maybe a robbery, or God forbid, a shooting, we can have people that are able to look at those camera feeds and research historical data,” said Gossman. “We (also) use the cameras to interrupt those bad actors as they’re committing crimes.”
Officers also have drones they could use during parades to make sure things are going well, according to Gossman.
By using the cameras, the officers are better equipped to make informed decisions faster, “so that they can stop whatever’s going on and solve community health and safety,” Gossman said.
“An example would be at the last day of the Independence Day celebration, we had a special needs kid go missing, and we were able to plug in a description of their clothing and we were able to find them really rapidly,” Gossman said. “You can imagine finding a small child in a crowd of 20,000 people, how difficult that would be, whereas (now) you can use the cameras to quickly locate them.”
Other law enforcement partners can use the Real-Time Crime Center in Warner Robins by plugging in their computers and projecting it up onto the screens in the center, Gossman said.
‘Technology is here, you may as well embrace it’
Gossman encouraged the community in Warner Robins to partner with the police department as they begin using the Real-Time Crime Center more frequently, saying that the police department wants “to build that trust and show how we’re not watching them,” he said Tuesday.
Warner Robins Mayor LaRhonda Patrick congratulated the efforts of the police department, saying the surveillance center was a way of embracing modern technology.
“Technology is here, you may as well embrace it,” said Patrick. “This is our way of embracing it in a way that could benefit every single person in this room and their families.”
This story was originally published June 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM.
