BLUE TACTICAL TEAM STRIKES BACK: 37 ARRESTS IN 48 DAYS
Mobile ANPR Camera
Working closely with SAPS and other intelligence organisations, this highly successful unit has collectively made 37 arrests in the first 48 days of 2020! You might be asking yourself, how do they do it? Well, we are here to explain the brains behind these top-secret Blue ops!
As you know, Blue Security’s goal is to create “Smarter, Safer” security solutions for communities and clients. With this in mind, we have designed the tactical division to integrate with the highly successful and intelligent technology that creates comprehensive layers of security. Those layers, combined with a complex system of communication networks, informers, and partnerships with the police and community roleplayers, gives the team the ability to strategically tackle organized crime – from drug trafficking and gang activity to robbery and hijacking syndicates.
Here are just a few of the layers of security that ensure that our team are armed and equipped with intelligent information to confront organized crime head-on!
ANPR CAMERAS (Automated Number Plate Recognition Cameras)
Our tactical teams work with an organisation called SNIPR, that provide ANPR technology through the use of ANPR cameras and a smartphone app. Each tactical vehicle is fitted with an ANPR camera so tactical ambassadors can scan number plates while on a crime scene or even during a car chase.
These high-tech, smart cameras read the number plates of vehicles driving past and automatically run them through a SAPS database of case registered vehicles, flagging any cars that would’ve been reported as stolen, hijacked or wanted.
Eye-in-the-Sky Dome
If confirmed positive, the system instantly circulates a high alert notification to the Blue Security tactical team and all other relevant role-players, which allow the team to act swiftly.
EYE-IN-THE-SKY CAMERAS
Eye-in-the-Sky Cameras are the large blue domes that are strategically placed around the greater Durban area. This live camera feed is monitored by Blue’s Community Command Centre. Any suspicious activity that is picked up by this centre is directly fed through to the tactical team.
The tech that makes this approach so effective includes Line-Crossing Technology and Virtual Patrols.
CRIME INTELLIGENCE NETWORK
The Blue Security Community Command Centre collects all the information it receives from Blue’s control centre, CCTV cameras, Armed Response Officers, Lieutenants, Area Managers, clients, Neighbourhood Watch Members, SAPS, and other private informants. This is all compiled and directed to the tactical team to ensure that they are aware of what is happening in and around the city of Durban.
Blue Security’s tactical team has an established relationship with SAPS, which creates a sharing platform for information that is vital to fighting organised crime. There is also another network of informants that include personal relationships that each of the tactical officers have built up, due to the nature of their exposure to elements on the ground. This specific network includes private informants, neighbourhood watch members and criminal informants.
We look forward to many more successful arrests made in the greater Durban area due to this dynamic team of professionals!
WHERE DO OUR TACTICAL TEAMS OPERATE?
- North of Durban
- Upper Highway
- South of Durban