WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — Warner Robins is a Georgia smart community, and you may soon notice that their police department is relying more and more on technology.
"The only way we've been able to keep up and do our job as well as we have is because of technology," Lt. Eric Gossman said.
Now, they plan to create a real-time hi-tech crime center for all of their technology systems, including the Fusus cameras.
"I love where I live and we do the best we can to keep it up," Gloria Head Johnson said.
She loves her place in Warner Robins so much, she worked to get her home renovated so she can stay in her family home.
"The city of Warner Robins just blessed us with a $50,000 grant," Johnson said.
As the city's first community home investment recipient she got a new roof, windows, cabinets, bathroom and more.
"It's like I got a brand new house," she said.
On Saturday, she says someone broke into her home and tried to steal her joy.
"It hurt, it really hurt, because I'm an advocate for my neighborhood," Johnson said.
There's a flock camera system in sight of her house, plus she has her own doorbell camera. Johnson wants to join the police department's new program, Fusus, which lets them access personal and business cameras
"I'm gonna let them know, 'How do I hook my camera to your camera, so you can watch my house," she said.
Gossman says with staffing shortages, tech is a major help in solving crime, and they have plans to grow it with hopes of building a real-time crime center.
"The vision is to put up anywhere from four to six different monitors," Gossman said.
Each one will help the person working the center do research and watch each of the different camera systems.
"Whether it is the flock camera database, the Fusus camera system," Gossman said.
He says it will help relieve tasks from officers, and help them get to important calls as they're happening.
"They have other tasks to do as well. If we have someone dedicated to watching and monitoring, they might see something that needs some attention that they just might miss because they're doing other tasks that they're supposed to be doing," he said.
Gossman says as neighboring cities like Perry build their tech, it could make an even safer community.
"We'll be able to see what's going on there, and maybe be able to predict things that are going on in our area as well," Gossman.
Johnson says she's on board.
"If God wants to give me a double portion of safety, I'm going to accept that," Johnson said.
The department is still working to get all the funding in place and approved. They recently received a grant from the Department of Justice to help with the goal.
You can connect your outdoor home or business security camera with the police department here.