The Cookeville City Council will consider entering a contract for an auto-tagging license for the city’s police department this Thursday.
Cookeville Police Chief Scott Winfree said the feature takes information from the Computer-Aided Dispatch and Records Management Systems and tags it with evidence automatically. Winfree said the license would be useful for storing footage taken from in-car and body-worn cameras.
“What this allows us to do is make sure we have all the videos for the, any public records request on a call,” Winfree said. “And it also ensures that we get all the video for criminal prosecution, cause sometimes that can get lost actually.”
The four-year contract would cost the city an estimated $33,500. Winfree said the auto-tagging license would increase efficiency and reduce typographical errors.
“What we do now is an officer will input their case number and input certain data into the video when it gets downloaded, and sometimes they may put the wrong digit in or something,” Winfree said. “So this way it just pulls from the metadata that’s already there.”
Council Member Ali Bagci asked Winfree if the system had a geo-fencing feature. Winfree said the system pulls from the officer ID and the timeframe that the video was generated.
The Cookeville City Council will meet on Thursday at 5:30pm.
