The Monmouth Police Department has entered an agreement with Flock Safety and will be installing license plate reader cameras throughout the City of Monmouth, which are not speed cameras, explains Communications Director Ken Helms:
“In about two to three months they will be installed with a company called Flock Safety. What these are, are license plate readers. They are being deployed all across the state in participating communities at the major throughput into town. They basically have machine learning that will take a look at the license plate and then log it. They way that works is if there was a stolen motor vehicle or a crime after the fact, it would allow them to see which direction they came into town and left town. Because so many agencies are now participating in it, it gets us access to a very large group of cameras. I believe Galesburg has 16 of them currently deployed and Peoria has them pretty much all over the area. These are simply a logging ability; it is not an automated ticket sender.”
Additionally, during the month of July, the Monmouth Police Department made 62 arrests and the dispatch center handled 4,200 calls.
