At the Aug. 23 City Council Study Session, Beverly Hills Police Chief Mark Stainbrook gave an overview of the Beverly Hills Police Department (BHPD) technology and privacy policies. The Council then heard from Southern California Edison about recurring power outages and finished the meeting with an update on holiday programming.
On April 13, the City Council approved nearly half a million dollars for the Police Department’s Real Time Watch Center (RTWC). The RTWC is intended to serve as a technological-intelligence hub that gathers all the information the police gather through Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras, Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) and drones. The RTWC is also implementing a new way to take emergency calls, known as Live911, which will connect emergency phone calls to officers in the field.
