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CCROC Opens New ORC
Strategic
Operations Training Center
in Chicago, 1st of its kind
Cook County State’s Attorney, Motorola Solutions, JCPenney
and Others Join Together to Fight Organized Crime
Motorola’s Real-Time Crime
Center solution assists with prevention, investigation,
arrest and prosecution of organized financial and retail
crimes in new strategic operations center
NORTH RIVERSIDE, Ill.--(BUSINESS
WIRE)--Motorola
Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MSI) is combining its public
safety and retail technology to assist the
Cook County Regional Organized Crime (CCROC) task force
in ongoing efforts to combat organized crime, including
retail theft. The National Retail Federation estimates
businesses are losing up to
$30 billion each year to organized retail crime. CCROC
is a task force of law enforcement and retail partners
formed by the State’s Attorney’s Office in 2010 to battle
the escalating crimes of organized retail theft and fencing
in the Chicago metropolitan area. CCROC is unveiling a new
strategic operations training center, which will serve as
the main crime information hub for the task force. JCPenney
is donating the 5,500 square-foot facility located in the
North Riverside, Ill. Mall, which will house law
enforcement offices for various police departments,
government agencies and retailers for the purpose of
hands-on training and collaboration.
The center will utilize technology from Motorola’s
Real-Time Crime Center solution, which was
introduced earlier this year, to bring together
streaming video, incident and criminal complaints, access to
arrest records, photographs, multi-media inputs and more.
All this data – which currently resides in separate
databases – can be integrated together by CCROC to provide
crime solving intelligence in seconds instead of hours or
even days as done today. The Real-Time Crime Center solution
correlates the data into intelligence to help curb crime as
it happens, aid in longer-term investigations and
potentially increase both arrest and prosecution rates.
Situational awareness made available with Motorola’s
Real-Time Crime Center solution is made actionable with the
integration of a radio console to enable real-time direct
voice communications with officers in the field and
real-time video streaming to a vehicle or handheld device
over existing carrier or private wireless networks.
Stolen merchandise such as razors, alcohol, baby formula or
cologne is typically “fenced” through brick and mortar
businesses or online. Shutting down these operations is
often a time-consuming and difficult process. With the help
of the Real-Time Crime Center solution, retailers and law
enforcement officers can work together quickly and easily to
apprehend the “boosters” who steal from the stores as well
as identify and shut down large fencing organizations and
criminal enterprises.
KEY FACTS
| ● Motorola’s Real-Time Crime
Center solution allows law enforcement officers
to approach an incident armed with more
operational intelligence than ever before.
Inputs from multiple data sources such as video,
sensors, alarms, computer-aided dispatch (CAD)
and records are unified to deliver one
operational view. |
| ● The Real-Time Crime Center
solution helps increase situational awareness
and direct deployment of resources. Analysts at
the center can see calls coming in and pull up
video images from the scene immediately. As
officers are responding, video footage and still
images can be sent to their vehicles providing a
description of the suspects and potential
whereabouts. This speeds response time and gives
officers a head start before they arrive on
scene. |
| ● With the Real-Time Crime
Center solution, CCROC will be able to
expediently capture and provide field officers
and investigators with instant, comprehensive
information to help identify suspects, crime
patterns and prevent emerging crime. Analysts
can obtain substantial information on suspects,
including pictures, addresses and other
identifiers to provide quicker apprehension,
arrest and prevention of other crimes by these
offenders. |
| ● CCROC’S purpose is to
provide a communication and operational
structure to reduce organized crime.
Traditionally, law enforcement and retail
organizations have worked independently of each
other. The Real-Time Crime Center solution
enables CCROC to work closely with retailers on
a common goal which positively affects the
outcome of investigations, the community and
potentially saves retailers money. |
| ● CCROC members at-large
include multiple police agencies throughout
Illinois, national retailers and banks. The
organization’s goal is to add full-time analysts
to improve collaboration and share appropriate
intelligence among all jurisdictions, retailers
and financial institutions. |
| ● The strategic operations
training center is located within a private
space at the North Riverside, Ill. Mall JCPenney
location. JCPenney donated the previously unused
space for the project, making it possible to
house pivotal crime information in one central
location. |
SUPPORTING QUOTES
Anita Alvarez, Cook County State’s Attorney
“Here in Cook County we have been working in unprecedented
ways to increase the investigation and prosecution of
organized retail theft and this new operations center is
going to provide us with an extraordinary opportunity to
continue to bridge the gap between law enforcement and
retailers. Thanks to the generous commitment of our retail
partners, we are a model for the nation in battling this
type of crime that has such a menacing impact on the average
consumer.”
Greg Billings, vice president, Motorola Solution Sales
and Professional Services
“The rise of organized crime is finding its way into retail
settings and expanding into financial exploitation of
customers and consumers. The integration of Motorola’s
Real-Time Crime Center solution in the CCROC initiative
demonstrates how public/private partnerships can help combat
this problem.”
Stan Welch, vice president, JCPenney Loss Prevention
“We’re proud to be a founding partner of the CCROC task
force, and we’re pleased to donate space for the operations
training center. The center is an integral tool in derailing
organized crime, and allows all participants to collect and
share information like never before.”
SUPPORTING RESOURCES
Website:
Motorola Solutions’ Real-Time Crime Center
Website:
Cook County Regional Organized Crime Task Force
Twitter:
@MotPublicSafety
Twitter:
@MotoRetail
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