New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority Board Members Tour Real Time Crime Monitoring Center

Convention Center officials and Exhibition Hall Authority Board Members outside the Real Time Crime Monitoring Center.*

Board members of the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority (“the Authority”) visited the New Orleans Police Department’s Real Time Crime Monitoring Center recently to learn of its capabilities in reducing crime. The Real Time Crime Monitoring Center was funded from the $23 million invested by the Authority in the Citywide Public Safety Improvement Plan. The facility allows law enforcement to pinpoint the location of crimes and support ongoing police investigations using advanced technologies including license plate readers and a network of security cameras.

The crime monitoring center is one part of a $40 million, multi-step public safety program put forward by the City of New Orleans. The Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority, the governing body for the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, funded a large share of the program’s total budget.

The Real Time Crime Monitoring Center currently relies on more than 125 cameras installed at areas of interest based on historical crime trends in the city, as well as input from New Orleans Police. Eventually, the system will use more than 300 cameras throughout the City. The Center will provide instant intelligence information 24/7 to all the public safety partners in New Orleans.

After little more than six months of use, officials at the Real Time Crime Monitoring Center noted that the camera program was able to contribute relevant information to more than 170 investigations.

* Featured in photo above: [L to R] Commissioner Darren Mire, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center President/GM Michael Sawaya, Commissioner Bonita Robertson, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center VP of Finance Alita Caparotta, Commissioner Robert Bray, Commissioner Steve Pettis and Chief of Public Safety Support Services Ross Bourgeois.